Slaughterhouse Five

It was the craziness of a dying young man with his shoes full of snow.

imagined a toad in a fishbowl

recommendation for clemency

punitive measure nor as retribution

imposed for desertion

How did I get so old

shed some tears.

He dimly sensed that somebody was rescuing him. Billy resented that

His head was tilted back and his nostrils were flaring

His vision of the outside world was limited to what he could see through a narrow slit between the rim of his helmet and his scarf from home, which concealed his baby face from the bridge of his nose on down