Re: OT: Gaming Poetry

Brian Burger wrote:

>I'm a Kipling fan, politically incorrect dead white European guy that
he
>is, so finding this one on a Usenet group ages ago was pretty cool.
>
>He wrote some blood-chilling poems about Afganistan, come to think of
it.
>Hope none of the troops operating there now have read them... "...roll
to
>yer rifle an' blow out your brains/an' go to yer God like a soldier..."

Yeah, you gotta love a writer who can make Ernest Hemingway seem like a 
starry-eyed optimist.  LOL  Of course, Kipling COULD be upbeat at times
- 
see "The Brushwood Boy" for example.

3B^2

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