stop.

He says he's "A real man's man"
        Today, the Gen'ral made his
men run forty-nine laps round
the          city perimeter.
He has great authority
which he wields too easily.

  His men hate him thoroughly.
His knick-name is "The hard-ass".

the very model of an 
army sergeant general.

no one  understands him but
his woman (and his mother).

 God rest her (mother's) dear soul.

A real meat-and-potatoes
sort of straight-as-an-arrow
his-house-is-his-to-command
kind of bark-and-bite fellow.

He hates to be told he's wrong.

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