Best Bayonets Poems

Fix bayonets to fight the foe,
Over the 'top' to sound of shell.
Village men of Fingeringhoe
Fix bayonets to fight the foe.
Fighting for King and country lo!
Trench warfare sure is swell
Fix bayonets to fight the foe
Over the 'top' to sound of shell....

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The grey sky
outside seems oddly comforting today.
My fire escape cuts a sharp, blackened 
silhouette against its 
iron-like visage, worthy 
of any modern art wannabe

I’m listening to Ken Burns
wax lyrical about the horrors 
of the Civil War. 
The bayonet charge ended with 
that war, apparently. 
A...

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