Axis & Allies - damowords

Death in the Jungle
Having swappʹd one prison for another
Slater conducts a bloody one‐man war,
Slaughtering patrols, breaking for cover,
From septic sores his weak white blood cells pour;
From makeshift camp
Devilry deliverʹd,
While fixing an old lamp his whole body shiverʹd.
Canto II
The course of the war from the liberation of France
to the Battle of the Bulge
He knew that his life was slipping
So he thought of his father,
Sweat in rivulets was dripping
When slain by Malaria,
Thro the bloated, blue corpse ripping
Came the Calliphora...
Attracted by a quiet, scratching sound
Some giant Sloth, three days aft, sniffs around.
She sinks her teeth, the body warm,
The brittle, black flesh splits,
O see them worm, O feel them squirm,
Awful trove of maggots,
The Sloth coughs up her rotten meat, nose‐snorting as she flits.
Thailand
August
1944
Manu a slippery tear scuds on the cheek
Many a flank gaping & crimson
Many a pool of blood round the field
Gruffudd Ab Yr Ywad Coch