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converting oxygen to mustard gas

Deviation Actions

Published: Aug 18, 2014

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Literature Text

everyday morse code tap tap taptap taps
through the wire
dragging our faces so deep through the mud
it shields us more
than our helmets ever could, ducking under barbed wire
boots useless

so covered in mud we are soldiers of the earth itself
no longer do we belong to the army,
us foot soldiers of the front
mother nature reclaiming
her charlie boys,
joined up

she'll get no western union notice no yellow slip
at her door
if she takes us all for herself
and distant from this war

in blood so thick and bullets so heavy
fumble for gas masks, throw canisters
back
and forth

for the fatherland
is our excuse