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Fort Europe · Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2012 7:08 pm Post subject: Poetry Thread

We haven't had a dedicated poetry thread for a while... so I thought I would start one.

For starters, I spotted this on The North Pacific's region noticeboard this afternoon, and thought you might enjoy...

Sitting in trenches writing jams
Officer there too, he be eating jams
He asked me if I would butter his bread
I said I'd rather think of you instead

Fruity fruit pie, that's what he called me
Said he would slap me if ever he saw me
After he had told me to go and get gone
Said not to be around him when thinking of your song

I can't write darling the bombs are going off
And my mate Jenkins, he going off
Losing his sanity in a field of flashes
As we crouch a huddled masses

Same look and same uniform
But they not wearing my uniform
You're the only one that's got it
Standard issue, you'd never have to have bought it
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