Forgotten Ground Regained
The Blasted Brigade’s Ballistic Bio-Armour
black symbiote, brass armor—An exoskeleton, blindingbruised egos, broken spirits, besmirched honors
with baronial brutality and bravura bloodshed, befittingbionic brawn bereft of barbarism—brilliant in its banality
A banality, A blankness, becoming ofbreakaway brainchildren of the beguiled, whobrought a belligerency—boastful in its breakthroughs, blameless in its breakage—to brace the baleful, because
bloodless builds breed brutal berserkers
bolstering blitzkrieg barrages ofbruised egos, broken spirits, besmirched honors
onto bitter breachesin boundless bliss ....
Copyright © J.D. Harlock, 2023
Originally published in the Spring 2023 “Weird Fiction Issue” of the Rio Grande Review
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