Christina writes:
> I'm not sure why the ending makes you lose empathy with the soldier?
> I'd hoped it was open and ambiguous enough for the reader to reflect
> his/her own feelings.  I sort of imagine people use strong language
> in tight situations and the character in the poem's in a very tight
> situation.

I just wanted to say that I don't agree that piss/peace reveals a
viewpoint. I took it as a reasonable portrayal of what a soldier might
think, as well he might, in the battlefield or at rest, about how things
are going: he might very well think 'piss or peace' at a bad moment,
while fully believing in the nature of the mission. In other words, at a
difficult moment a soldier could very well think 'is this going to be
piss or peace'.

Carl