remains - simon armitage

• probably armed, possibly not (repetition before and after volta)
• pain itself, the image of agony
• his bloody life in my bloody hands.
• and the drink and the drugs won't flush him out
• his blood shadow stays on the street,
• tosses his guts (disregard for human life, dehumanising image)
• sort of inside out (hyperbole - not literal, unrecognisable as a human, brutality of war. violent image contrasted with the lack of identity he has been given - nameless, exaggerates war effects)