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Digging the stiches out from the head of a wounded soldier

Slivers of shrapnel shell digging down into my shoulder

Wade in the disease

Collateral death all over

War ravaged sensories

Pushing on from odor to odor

Infection fills my veins

Dirty water intoxicates my brain

Shit ground in my pores

Said I can't go home

Said I'm already dead

Don't you go bury me yet

I'll build my own casket

Living is killing me

Smoked out the gift of life

God helped us make believe

Choke out the words and pray

Roll out the death machine

Radiation will end this siege

Black core black body sewage

Times about to run out

My gut ache's so in love with this routine

Now you've been warned

You're in for it now

This ship's going down,

But don't you go and bury me yet

I'll build my own casket

No mistaking life loss in the eyes

Painted on