May 2019
The drunken Navy cook was suppurative 1 with tats
And the supply boat was always sunk or late
Our officers would not release the c-rats
So one night someone forced a lock, and we ate:
Tin-can crackers, mother////ers and ham
Mystery meat with beans in tomato sauce
Beans and baby ////s and some heavy jam
Beef slices with potatoes in sphagnum moss
But Lieutenant Macbeth, a lord over the earth
Found us, and then he much displaced the mirth 2
1 Cf. Chaucer’s cook in The Canterbury Tales
2 Macbeth III.IV.132-133
In the end, Lieutenant Macbeth (not the ////’s real name) could do nothing since the looted c-rats were so widely distributed that he’d have had to write up the entire unit.
And the supply boat was always sunk or late
Our officers would not release the c-rats
So one night someone forced a lock, and we ate:
Tin-can crackers, mother////ers and ham
Mystery meat with beans in tomato sauce
Beans and baby ////s and some heavy jam
Beef slices with potatoes in sphagnum moss
But Lieutenant Macbeth, a lord over the earth
Found us, and then he much displaced the mirth 2
1 Cf. Chaucer’s cook in The Canterbury Tales
2 Macbeth III.IV.132-133
In the end, Lieutenant Macbeth (not the ////’s real name) could do nothing since the looted c-rats were so widely distributed that he’d have had to write up the entire unit.
