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[aid] => Mick
[title] => THE GUEST AT THE KILL-FEST
[time] => 2003-07-22 14:35:00
[hometext] => ‘Unnatural deeds breed unnatural troubles’ - Macbeth
[bodytext] => With one surgical strike They sought to do the deed By one killing stroke From mass death be freed But his ghost eludes them still An unseen guest at the feast His voice now calls for vengeance To attack the invading beast They try in vain victory to assert Saddam‘s ghost blocks their way Perverse fortune drives them mad Each new turn serves to betray Greater power they had over the king But their strength is turned to fear And with a spirit sore and sapped They find no course to steer But to retreat in confusion He stalks them in their dreams With fevered brows that long for sleep The heat can't cloak their screams Each soldier now wild-eyed in fear: says 'Turn, hell-hound, turn!' But unwelcome guests in a foreign land Now feel their conscience burn Strangers they are to this foreign place Where confusion is all around While madness shows its fearful face Washing bloody hands on sandy ground [comments] => 0 [counter] => 141 [topic] => 43 [informant] => Steeleyes [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 5 [ratings] => 1 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => oops )
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