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WAR! by ANONYMOUS

First Line: "WAR - A DIRTY, LOATHESOME, SERVILE MURDER-JOB"
Last Line: BECAUSE HE MADE THEM IN HIS IMAGE
Subject(s): DEATH;INJUSTICE;MILITARY;SOCIAL PROTEST;SOLDIERS;WAR; "DEAD, THE;"
War—a dirty, loathesome, servile murder-job;
Men lousy, sleepless, ulcerous, afraid;
Men stunned to brainlessness and gibberings;
Men maimed and blind; men against machines;
Flesh versus iron, concrete, flame and wire;
Men choking out their souls in poison gas;
Men squelched into the slime by tramping 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 in his image.



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