Twenty Four Men In a Field

Tension builds in multiples Between two lords with their disciples: For knives wanting to rush at arteries, Trouble starts changing their batteries! Now, every cough is risky: Experimentation with the frisky; Every move of defiance, A murderous stab’s reliance; The discordant notes of a forced sneeze And awkwardness of every heard wheeze. Something of headache for cold-suffering Clement Already out of his element: “How he should every sneeze contain And a rearing cough detain… And the final hateful explosion delay, If he must still with his life pay? Twenty-four men in a field Leaving blood-thirsty tension to build!