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Lick your wounds and then
Bathe in some salutary praise as you've
Made it back with wounds to lick
And do not now lie down
Haphazard on the ground
Along the soaked wet red field of battle
Like so many others
That did not return
So lick your wounds and grin and raise a glass to say
You made it back alive
More so than
The less lucky or agile ones
Fallen fellows now lost
Raise a glass for them and drink it all down every drop
As such succour is precious and
To pour some out is such a waste
For ghosts can taste it not
And their bodies are not here to bury anyways
Let alone present to pour salutary booze
Upon the earth of which they prop
They have been left where they fell
On the field of battle
While you sit and drink and
Lick your wounds
By: Daniel Smallegange.
