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Battle for the Bastille

from A Gentleman's Agreement by The Art of Attraction

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I've never felt so in tune. The cold air has a strange effect. I have a heightened sense of things.

His weapon is simply an extension of his body; it shoulders smoothly. Lax and loose, he pulls the trigger and she sings a melody -- song so vivid and so deafening -- in harmony with artillery and the screams of casualties.

The silence shatters to the sound of small arms chatter as these weapons speak in crudely drafted prose. Clip-fed poetics in the arms of young lieutenants beckon for their bearers to desert. Ignore rifle reports as the target's skin contorts to the contour of the bullets. Ruptured organs spew a crimson colored stream.

Onward marching, soldiers charging forward, arms in arms. Bullets discharging downrange, dispatched to penetrate. We've got to shoulder this fine weaponry before the enemy's infantry can mount artillery and batteries upon us. Toe to toe with our fatal foes, steady fingers empty magazines.

Never surrender, never retreat. My brain begs my body to comfort my feet, and it's hard to keep them grounded when they're so tempted to flee. The battlefield is not what it seems in the motion pictures. Masculinity lacks virility. Men become like little children.

They say there's glory to die in battle. I beg to differ. I beg to leave. It's not as it seems in the motion pictures.

Onward marching, soldiers charging towards objectives designated on their maps. Onward marching, soldiers charging, unaware of certain death entrenched in these trenches.

Lacerations last durations longer than the desperation lingered on their eager tongues, bellowed forth by damaged lungs.
(Medic! Medic! Corpsman, bring the morphine! Induce coma while their bodies purge their veins.)

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from A Gentleman's Agreement, released October 7, 2009

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