Blood shed and trains
... they rode
the war took them away

Hot heads shrieking pain
... for fame replete
a meal dead men eat

War brought them home again
... all that remains
trumpets for kings of bane

All that remains to tell
... stories random
of hog's heads swelled.

Hogs' heads piled high
... like abalone shells.
boys got shot all to hell

Kings of bane
... 'round their necks
not holy chains.


Patrick Darnell