Love and Gunpowder

God bless wartime for lovers And the heart's desire For all things ammunition The seminal spark Of randomology Runs as an aqueduct To the mothership Fascination is found In strangeness And its sister's alien sigh The fun of fear Is teeth and biomechanics And morbid curiosity Of what lurks in the brazen alcove Abducted on Sunday morning Returned in time for kickoff Dressed like a fugitive With a hole in your head Souvenir of the brave and the new The body's warm jets Begin to stir as a powder keg Any kind of love you've had Is always far sweeter as a memory A memory, angel

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