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
.
At Verdun and the Somme back in ‘16
He displayed his great flair
For adding large numbers
Of young souls wickedly squandered
.
Dulce et decorum est, he shrieked,
As the Brits and the Yanks
Stoked the fires of hell at Hamburg
In Operation Gomorrah
.
A master linguist, he spoke fluently in
Vietnamese, French, and English
Amid fetid fields and burnt villages
Fouled by napalm and rotting flesh
.
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
.

Reprinted from The Beacon Blog.

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