Veterans Are Fugitives from Hell

Music: Les Corps Glorieux. Part VII: Le Mystere de la Sainte Trinite. By Olivier Messiaen. Sequenced by Serge Winitzki at Kunst der Fuge.

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Veterans are fugitives from hell, Escapees from death pursued by pain. The truth they left behind makes truth insane; Each nightmare is a truth they know too well. Reason is unreasonable when words Are whips that drive believers to the kill, Necessary to sustain a will Stirred by the sweet morning songs of birds. Decencies are frills to put aside As hearts are hardened for the jolting ride, Yet on return clamp and harden still.