Gallipoli 1915
I was there
George said
blood bath
that was.
Bodies
in the water
on land.
Many
of my chums
went down.
He sat
in the bath chair
as I ran the water
for his bath.
Churchill's idea
it was
right disaster.
I helped him undress
as after his stroke
he was paralysed
down his left side.
That photograph
by my bed
that chap
in uniform
is me
and my late wife
we married before
I went off to war
I came back
others didn't.
Once he was undressed
I helped him
into the bath
and set him down
and gave him
his flannel
soaped up.
Thanks Benny
he said.
He washed
his neck
and face
and other parts
of his body
he could reach.
I washed his hair
and rinsed it.
Never forget that
blood bath
he said
staring into space
bodies everywhere.
He closed his eyes
as I combed his hair.
Not a scratch on me
not through
the whole war
lucky ******
he said
unlike those
other poor buggers
the dead.
Jul 5, 2017
Jul 5, 2017 at 2:12 PM UTC
Gallipoli 1915
I was there
George said
blood bath
that was.
Bodies
in the water
on land.
Many
of my chums
went down.
He sat
in the bath chair
as I ran the water
for his bath.
Churchill's idea
it was
right disaster.
I helped him undress
as after his stroke
he was paralysed
down his left side.
That photograph
by my bed
that chap
in uniform
is me
and my late wife
we married before
I went off to war
I came back
others didn't.
Once he was undressed
I helped him
into the bath
and set him down
and gave him
his flannel
soaped up.
Thanks Benny
he said.
He washed
his neck
and face
and other parts
of his body
he could reach.
I washed his hair
and rinsed it.
Never forget that
blood bath
he said
staring into space
bodies everywhere.
He closed his eyes
as I combed his hair.
Not a scratch on me
not through
the whole war
lucky ******
he said
unlike those
other poor buggers
the dead.
