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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!