the brigadier 

 emollients 

   spread on the skin 

   like civil war tents 

         the cannonballs 

        placed on the road 

 for mass effect 

           a corpse strewn 

    skin solution 

         in blue and grey 

         ahhh the South will rise again 

                                      like oozing pustules

             I'd rather be dead in a civil war photograph 

           than have acne

                     "corpse strewn"