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The first war, the war of 14 to 18Begins with an uprising of adrenalinThe first war begins with the testicles descending& desire assassinating the child that you once wereThe war begins at schoolWhen you rebel against the maths teacherWho touched you up behind his desk& ends when you fail your final maths exam& have your first success with sexThe war brings new discoveriesHow to make dog fights with your thyroid & pituitary glandsHow the Zeppelin can fly at your command& a generation lays down its lifeWhen after all they've done for youThe good parentsThe good parents dieResurrected as your enemy& when the girl you've started wantingMore than all you've ever wanted says noShe is your enemy tooBut you survive& from the trenches of your newly found opinionsFreshly dug, quickly abandonedThe white flag waves for an armistice on Christmas DayThen your voice rings round the family front roomLike a drill sergeant's in front of his platoonBroken too soonBut you surviveThe second war, the war of 39 to 45Begins when you identify your own inner Third ReichThe second war begins with a sudden hypochondriaA visit to a doctor who waves a piece of paper & says"This time it's just a false alarm"The war begins at work with some intoxicating newsWhen the letter comes that offers you promotion& ends when you decide to let them offer itTo younger men with more ambitionThe war brings new perspectivesWhen you suddenly see throughThe politics of power which possessed youThrough all your working hours& a generation lays down its lifeWhen the whiz kids of the industrySlow downSlow down & dieResurrected as your enemy& when the woman who accepted youWhen all the rest rejected you goesShe is your enemy tooBut you survive& at weekends you get custody of an only childAlready adolescent & unreconciledWho laughs at you, you & your new-found piety& his laugh rings round your faint desire for godLike an order from an inner firing squadBreaking the ties of bloodBut you surviveBut the third war is the war that never comesThe war that never comes to everyoneBegins the second after next by accidentEnds everything except itselfThe war brings nothingThe unimaginableWhich the old imagine all the timeImagine imagination dying& a generation lays down its lifeWhen it refuses the creationOf new waysNew ways to live& when the great invention falls apartRipping through the atoms of your heartThe third war will startWhich no-one survives

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