Re: OT: Gaming Poetry

Brian Burger schrieb:
> 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..." 

Indeed, he wrote some impressive - and often highly emotional - stuff.
Another blood-curdling Afghanistan one is "Arithmetic on the frontier",
with verses like these:

A scrimmage in a Border Station —
A canter down some dark defile —
Two thousand pounds of education
Drops to a ten-rupee jezail —
The Crammer's boast, the Squadron's pride,
Shot like a rabbit in a ride! 

The full text can be found, for example, at:
http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/verse/v
ol1/arithmeticfrontier.html

Greetings