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The Parapet

© 2013 (By Jim Sularz)

 

Let me muse a bit,

below the parapet.

And bask awhile,

in the sun and grit.

That I should ****

or be killed instead?

Come my battle cry . . .

“Fix bayonets!”

 

. . . Dare I charge headlong,

beyond this pit?

Through War’s slaughterhouse,

past the blood and spit.

Do as I’m told,

without regret?

As I plunge over . . .

my epitaph.

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Mar 19, 2013
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(Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of WW1)

1914-1918

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