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I took my twelve bore gun, rusting,

from its dust-laden shelf and thrust it over

my shoulder - sold on the idea that thus

I'd bust the final crust of a girlfriend's resistance.

The prissy conscience about participating

in a hateful sport involving suffering to birds,

wordless, I set aside, in what amounts

to a bountiful, selfless exhibition of love.

Another's vigorous blood lust suddenly

triggers big in my veins, and I stand manfully

panning the sky at the brink of my soldier’s trench,

drenching the swooping enemy with bursts of grapeshot.

     The battle won, there's only this to tell -

     the killer instinct is alive and well!