Would it suit me to do my duty for
Queen and country when all around me
what I can see
is the crumbling edifice of community
and the remains of a once
proud history.

Army?
and we become salvation, but for whom
if the bell should toll in that dreadful way
should I stay and fight or drift off into
the calamity of what is the endless night?

I dress in suits of many types
(he writes)
yet each suit is the same,
as underneath
there is no change
and the questioner remains.