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[aid] => mick
[title] => The Canon Part II
[time] => 2004-02-18 19:42:09
[hometext] => I'm back!!
[bodytext] => I am warm I am flesh I have died on countless battlefields For those principles that I hold in my heart Even unto its final beat I am charlatan Some men I hate for no reason Some men I kill for no reason I justify each thrust of my sword Each crimson stream I invite from another Each soul I send to what may be hereafter With a squeeze of a lever and a blur of sulfur I feel each scream As if it issued from my own throat I feel the rifle Steady in my hands An extension of my own efficiency At once bitter, deadly, calculated At once a confused effigy of emotion in the fray The bayonet glimmers off its end Each time I pierce a man I pierce my soul And tears run of its steel end As blood from my heart I call myself pure I call myself a child of god I call myself a husband, father, son I die a soldier. [comments] => 1 [counter] => 164 [topic] => 43 [informant] => scott [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 0 [ratings] => 0 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => oops )
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