Sentry

from Perfect Ending by Last Legs

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Sentry

As he lay there grazing,
the sentry was drunk and shoe-gazing,
not breaking a sweat.

At the watchtower burning,
a candle, a bookend was turning.
Gas chamber, well met!

No recourse to miles of wire at yuletide.
He might call it in,
but his eyes still twitch and burn with hindsight.
It won’t be enough.

The embers were fading,
the toothless and empty debating
what evening would bring,

with the gallows a-looming
and silence voracious, consuming
the pestilent wing.

In due course the flow of wire in sunlight
will crack at the knees,
and deflower the sentry waiting stageside,
yelling, “Enough!”

Lo, the shovelful of clay,
bayonet and tourniquet!
Build a pyre, clear the way.
Weep, the sentry died today.

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from Perfect Ending, released February 16, 2010
Dušan Rebolj - music, lyrics, vocals
Borut Praper - music, arrangement, keyboards, programming, drums, bass, guitar
Monika Fritz - backing vocals
Jure Praper - guitar

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