soldiers brought him here / this is war / ordered to drum men into battle / one of many / line advancing / fall in pain / breaking line drums on / saw meself talkin ta a boy me own age moraless / just talkin boylike / idle afternoon larkin about / an afore me eyes hes grown older older / years shrinks ta minutes / drummerboy jerks awake in smoke an noise / blood smear gold braid / gery whisp driftin tween grass / out / boy again own age asleep n the grass beside us / clean feild / idle afternoon breathin / years shrink ta seconds so y sees in one minutes hes crumpled old decrepit and wakes up / panic / wes shouting at each other incontrollably / uncoherent / im struggling not ta wake against the feeling of who and where i reallys am / returnin ta me / sickenin / i takes tha ol man boy by tha arm an pulls him / to me / kissin / was it? / who first? that kinda stops us / whats happen / im not old / i not / i / eyes ached / which one am i / dead drummerboy / pox your men wars / you