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Thursday, August 9, 2007

Mental Cases by Wilfred Owen
Who are these? Why sit they here in twilight?
Wherefore rock they, purgatorial shadows,
Drooping tongues from jaws that slob their relish,
Baring teeth that leer like skulls' tongues wicked?
Stroke on stroke of pain, -- but what slow panic,
Gouged these chasms round their fretted sockets?
Ever from their hair and through their hand palms
Misery swelters. Surely we have perished
Sleeping, and walk hell; but who these hellish?
- These are men whose minds the Dead have ravished.
Memory fingers in their hair of murders,
Multitudinous murders they once witnessed.
Wading sloughs of flesh these helpless wander,
Treading blood from lungs that had loved laughter.
Always they must see these things and hear them,
Batter of guns and shatter of flying muscles,
Carnage incomparable and human squander
Rucked too thick for these men's extrication.
Therefore still their eyeballs shrink tormented
Back into their brains, because on their sense
Sunlight seems a bloodsmear; night comes blood-black;
Dawn breaks open like a wound that bleeds afresh
- Thus their heads wear this hilarious, hideous,
Awful falseness of set-smiling corpses.
- Thus their hands are plucking at each other;
Picking at the rope-knouts of their scourging;
Snatching after us who smote them, brother,
Pawing us who dealt them war and madness.

Just wanted to share some poetry!actually just one poem. This is my favourite owen poem. Actually i love them all but this really smacks you right in the face. It super gory and it immediately gives you this really creepy eerie feeling. These are supposed to be soldiers but now they seem like tortured bloodthirsty demons. ekkkss scary! There's another short story that is kinda creepy..its from Neil Gaiman's(thats how you spell it right) fragile things...its about some guy who went to hell...i forgot the title...that was a really eerie story...i remembered the line "time is fluid" was repeated alot. Anyway where is that book! hmmm i haven finished reading it....cause you know the slow reader i am.....

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