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Lacrimosa

Mark A. Murphy

    They stand at the crossroads of history,
            the old comrades

No more than a footnote to a debacle,
moustachios and beards in a state of disgrace
Awaiting the inevitable decay,
the day of tears, the ulcerated tongue –
the day of final reckoning
Instincts turned inwards against the self
Their passions spent
a century ago

 
No more do they cry freedom,
meaning love, meaning peace, meaning progress
No more do they cry fraternity.
Their memories are beset with land mines –
the faces and voices of the past, girls names,
the dead, the dead

Always the dead

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