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KÖNIGSTIGER
11-17-2003, 09:17 PM
i just wrote this, it took me about an hour, and i would like to know what needs to be improved on it. thanks!

the parts in red are in a different perspective

The Grunt
His whole world has slowed to a creeping

The adrenaline is pumping, seething

He pulls the trigger

His weapon recoils quickly, faithfully

Seconds have passed, seemingly hours

His weapon spits leaden death into enemy ranks

A long, nasty shriek echoes, painful, horrifying

Enemy mortar shells streak in accurately

They tear up the Grunt’s world

He gives it back with a vengeance...

It happens suddenly, far too quickly

His weapon has jammed, stuck fast

He makes a quick dash for cover

She takes careful aim

Holding a good foot ahead of the Grunt

She takes a deep breath, then lets half escape

Taking the trigger slack up, her rifle bucks mightily

Her thirty-caliber slug is on its way,

The messenger of death eagerly approaches

Carrying with it one premature ticket to a warrior’s heaven

He feels it whiz just before him

Down he goes, behind a log

Reality is back, everything’s fast-paced

The jam cleared, he brings the gun up

A long burst of fire is sent out yonder

Hoping to make its way to the sniper’s hide

Unbeknownst to the Grunt, she has moved

She has found a new hide, ten meters to the left

Clearly he can be seen, she cannot miss this time

The Mosin recoils heavily once again

The thirty-caliber bullet flies fast

The Grunt recoils in pain, the bullet just hit

His right elbow was nicked, "only a scratch"

She quickly works the bolt, chambering new lead

He sends more bullets speeding her way

The Mosin is to her shoulder

Suddenly, he sees a glimmer, ever faint, so yonder

She finds him once again, in the same place

Ignoring the pain, he runs to the left, firing a long burst once again

Her bullet hits his right foot, he can move no longer

His buddy lets out a big war whoop, shouting motivation

With newfound enthusiasm he raises his gun

He expends the last of his ammo on his tyrant

She pulls up the rifle, fearing nothing, untouchable

However, the Grunt’s last bullets strike home

The lead strikes her in the temple, her head blows apart

The rifle falls to the ground, active no longer

The Grunt pulls out his forty-five automatic

Fending off the last of Victor Charlie

Her cursed soul is on its way to VC Heaven

One bullet is her only passport, her ticket

A ticket stamped, "Courtesy of the United States Marine Corps"

There are no more enemy left, they’ve fled, overpowered

The Corpsman sprints to the Grunt as he slips into unconsciousness

Even if he dies today, he knows he made a valiant stand

He faced the Grim Reaper, and twice, dealt him the Black Hand


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well?

KÖNIGSTIGER
11-18-2003, 06:39 PM
honestly now, i'm not tryin to show it off, i want to know what doesn't make sense! please help! :)

Wesforce
11-19-2003, 12:55 PM
Hmm, nothing that doesn't make sense... If I had a problem with it I'd say it's biased against the VC woman, but meh.

Pretty good :)

KÖNIGSTIGER
11-19-2003, 04:07 PM
yeah the reason i made it a woman was because i figured it would get a lil confusing with 2 guys in it, this way there is no question as to who's shooting when.

The Patriot
12-31-2003, 05:59 PM
This is great! Except that the Vietcong should have gone to hell...They were communists who didn't believe in God, so how could they go to heaven...

VO
01-01-2004, 04:49 AM
Tis good..... a little like if Clancy took to poetry, though :p

Bean
01-09-2004, 08:20 PM
I like it.

KÖNIGSTIGER
01-10-2004, 11:06 PM
Tis good..... a little like if Clancy took to poetry, though :p
actually, it's fairly unrealistic [clancy goes for realisticality] in the fact that the woman sniper couldn't kill the marine M60 machine gunner with what, 3 or 5 shots? and somehow the marine managed to kill a sniper in the prone position at roughly 700 meters in less than 50 .308 cal bullets, which recoil heavily when fired full auto from a hand held machine gun...;)

but hey, i had to bend the truth...