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Franz Ferdinand

Soldiers in HellSUICIDE IN THE TRENCHES   I KNEW A SIMPLE SOLDIER BOYWHO GRINNED AT LIFE IN EMPTY JOY,SLEPT SOUNDLY THROUGH THE LONESOME DARK,AND WHISTLED EARLY WITH THE LARK.  IN WINTER TRENCHES, COWED AND GLUM,WITH CRUMPS AND LICE AND LACK OF RUM,HE PUT A BULLET THROUGH HIS BRAIN.NO ONE SPOKE OF HIM AGAIN.  YOU SMUG-FACED CROWDS WITH KINDLING EYE.WHO CHEER WHEN SOLDIER LADS MARCH BY,SNEAK HOME AT PRAY YOU’LL NEVER KNOWTHE HELL WHERE YOUTH AND LAUGHTER GO.  SIEGFRIED SASSOON

Otto Dix, Trench Suicide (1924)

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