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FLIGHT
OVERTAKEN
HANGING
EXECUTION
NOOSES
YOUTH
War -- a dirty,
loathsome, servile murder-job;
Men, lousy, sleepless, ulcerous, afraid;
Men stunned to brainlessness, and gibberings;
Men maimed and blinded: men against machines;
Flesh versus iron, concrete, flame and wire;
Men choking out their souls in poison gas;
Men squelched into the slime by trampling feet;
Dead bodies used to build a trench again;
Men disemboweled by guns five miles away,
Cursing with their last breath the living God
Because he made them his image.
From "The Other Side and Other
Poems," by Capt. Gilbert Frankau, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., publishers
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MACHINE
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