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Bayonet Charge
A soldier runs through bullets and, mid-run, wonders why he is there.
This poem in five words
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The quotes
3 big quotes in this poem.
Bullets smacking the belly out of the air
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Bullets punch the air itself. The soldier runs through it.
In what cold clockwork of the stars and the nations
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Mid-run he wonders what machine put him here. Stars, nations, cold clockwork. He is a part in it.
King, honour, human dignity, etcetera
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The big words for why he is fighting. Etcetera. They fall away when the bullets come.
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