War Music by Christopher Logue

Author:Christopher Logue
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780374714291
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Impacted battle. Dust above a herd.

Hands wielding broken spearpoles rise through ice-hot twilight

flecked with points.

And where you end and where the dust begins

Or if it is the dust or men that move

And whether they are Greek or Trojan, well

Only this much is certain: when a lull comes – they do –

You hear the whole ridge coughing.

‘There’s Bubblegum!’ ‘He’s out to make his name!’

‘He’s charging us!’ ‘He’s prancing!’ ‘Get that leap!’

THOCK! THOCK!

‘He’s in the air!’ ‘Bubblegum’s in the air!’ ‘Above the dust!’

‘He’s lying on the sunshine in the air!’ ‘Seeing the Wall!’ ‘The

arrows keep him up!’

THOCK! THOCK!

‘Olé!’ ‘He’s wiggling in the air!’ ‘They’re having fun with him!’

‘He’s saying something!’ ‘Bubblegum’s last words!’

‘He’s down!’ ‘He’s in the dust!’ ‘Bubblegum’s in the dust!’

‘They’re stripping him!’ ‘They’re stripping Bubblegum!’

‘Close!’

‘Close!’

‘You can’t see anything!’

‘His mother sold her doves to buy his plate!’

‘You can’t see who to kill!’

Sunlight like lamplight.

Brown clouds of dust touch those brown clouds of dust already

overhead.

And snuffling through the blood and filth-stained legs

Of those still-standing-thousands goes

Nasty, Thersites’ little dog,

Now licking this, now tasting that.

Nestor, his son, Antilochus, standing beside him:

‘Belovéd friends:

This stasis is God’s work:

And it is blasphemous to win when He says wait …‘

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