those roads and fields
littered with bitter war torn steel
attest those frittering incursions
such rabid dogs of war
salivating when bombs fall
strategy did this
just how far
cruelty ensues
renewed with every battle call
fuel and brute force
reviewing each chance
all those propaganda tales
liberation created this
bombs selling liberty and death
bureaucrat and politicat
such remorseful romance
fueling a despotic kiss of death
announced as armies advance
soldiers bleeding into austere motion pictures
severe oceans of tribulation
crossing country ditches
farms and towns
flensed and war torn
needy body parts
Perpetua turning empire inside out
hierarchy blown apart in tanks
isn't that what war is all about
ripped to bits
fresh and messy red stripes
behest orchards and groves
disintegrated by bastard bombs and trenches
bureaucratic ranks bloodied
tank trains rank caution
frank political crossings
such fiscal stops and starts
cultivating stricken earth
boss war knows how
torching earth with indignant fire
there is no horizontal or vertical anymore
let loose relentless scorching war
outline grief and gore
expect despondent trees
struggling to survive
flies and worms
madly proliferating
as treachery and madness is contrived
replenishing war's true desire
everything that war derives
diminishing hope and peace
sense and sensibility abstain
truth remains hidden and contained
detain everything
smothering invasion is incited
mother country and moody glorified war
crudely smearing unrestrained
war's gratification of blood and guts
rudely spattered by death and more
twisted war's morbid desire
peace blinded and deaf with this demise
gruesome terror and lurid gore
wanton war's putrid gift and phallic prize
boasted with razor words from snarling lips
war makes peace
flippant war with its lying eyes

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