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Fiery, fiery, the likened charge,

four hoofbeats change the size of the man.

the circle will shrink but the ring enlarge

enclosing a score on Custer’s last stand.

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Solo the kill, then squirts into clusters,

all fallen men, the army of Custer’s.

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Violence will grow with personal skill –

Armstrong had four years experience.

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Man, for the Sioux, was a slow learned kill,

as experience gives way to impertinence.

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And a novelty strike will not even the score,

the unfortunate boons in a war.

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Dangling and standing each round was demanding

a final stop and an end to this war.

Short lived the skirmish each life so depending

on living another day more.

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No Bluecoat left standing, so goes the ending

of depending on another day more.

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But who was attacking and who was defending?

Two sides, the vicissitudes of war.

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