Classic Poem

having been had.
having been screwed blued & tattooed shot at & missed shit at & hit used hard & put away wet.
rushed & busted wooed won robbed blind & stood up cold.

having had.
having bitten supper dust & fucked the monkey & nightmared on grey trays & marched one one one long light year.
a million miles & blistered backache gutburn bugbite gumboil claplimp groincyst armpit boils big as boiled eggs very coarse veins & a worn piece.

from being shark'd up to becoming debris d'empire.

mottoes batons standards & piped banners nevertheless & the rat-tat of tracers to purfle a dark acre.

we are medieval mariners.
we leave to to to begin to start to kick off the thirty years war.
hundred.

having crossed Poland & the Trojan plain & gone on on our stomachs southeast many smoking miles & hit the beach & monkey jungle mercy.
for.
for.
what for for what we give up.

eggshell.

eggshell something eggshell funk & panic eggshell self.
eggshell Helen eggshell hell of it.

& what of it.
eggshell shoulder patch & cash-hard laughter takes the cold camp as far as getting & forgetting breakfast.

& we say together today whether together or not.

left.