The Consummate Fallen Angel
The devil is agile and quick on his feet |
He fought at Gettyburg |
From beginning to end |
And never got a single scratch |
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At Verdun and the Somme back in ‘16 |
He displayed his great flair |
For adding large numbers |
Of young souls wickedly squandered |
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Dulce et decorum est, he shrieked, |
As the Brits and the Yanks |
Stoked the fires of hell at Hamburg |
In Operation Gomorrah |
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A master linguist, he spoke fluently in |
Vietnamese, French, and English |
Amid fetid fields and burnt villages |
Fouled by napalm and rotting flesh |
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He never tires and needs no maps |
Finding his way through the world with ease |
As if he has visited each place |
Many times before, since the dawn of time |
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Reprinted from The Beacon Blog.
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