Freshly Minted Marines Gleaming armor. Gurgles out, Grit. Guts. Glory. Gone is man, a "resoced" soldier. His sympathy cut in a quarry. Smoldering worlds. Squirming foes, Stim. Spikes. Spines. Splattered on the creep, man meat. The Hydralisk Dines. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- I hope you enjoyed. I was commenting on other people's stuff and felt I should put something up.
I liked the way "freshly minted marines" sounded. It's intended to bear image of coins being stamped out a.k.a. minted. I was hoping the last line would tie into the first; by transforming that image into more like a seasoned marine packed into a can of spam. The humor wasn't originally intended but the last stanza flowed right out after I settled on "Stim. Spikes. Spines." . The first line I actually wrote was "grit, guts, glory" and stacked the alliteration from there. The original idea was for a Terran marine war chant. Like what you hear out of marching US Marines; but somehow it turned into what it is. But yeah, I was very conscious of the sound as I wrote it. Thanks for the kind words.
Yeah, it means resocialized. I read a book called The Outsiders and the abbreviation for socials was socs, pronounced sow-shuhz
Thought most of us knew about resoced marines. If you go to the marine profile on the sc2 site you can learn more there. But yeah, Meee sums it up. (Holy ****, Chris Benoit? LOL morbid humor, lol. ) Ah the outsiders...I remember reading about Ponyboy and his crew. I hated that book. The movie launched a few big name stars; people who are scientologists these days. ****ing awful. The Giver. That was a damn good middle school level book. Maniac Magee, another classic. How many times did I use that book as my summer reading assignment I wonder.
