OFFICER WITH HIS HEAD SCREWED ON RIGHT! (WW1)
The staff officer gits safe way back behind the linesWiff their maps with mad cap ideas
Had thees great ideas , plainly mad!
They'd send us orders , expecting them orders to be obeyed
Wiff out questan
Our officers had sent to many to die with any point , no reason
So decided to avid any more deaths
Our officers , know full well were imposable to carry out
Murder and suicide , still against the law back in Blighty
As far as woz known!
To order men to carry out the mad orders
Would be plainly murder
To do as ordered
Clearly an act of suicide
Though hear at The Front , murder and suicide
Quite normal , a common sight
A descant officer would insure no one died
So , he'd keep some German barbwire handy
Cut of a strand , to send back , as prove he'd
Sent men , to check out No Mans Land
Had a close look at Jerreys trench
Them back well back behind the line , none the miser
And no one died that night , this time!
Ken D Williams
The Dyslexic Wordsmith
Poetry by ken d williams
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Written on 2014-07-01 at 22:21
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