CAMOUFLAGE
Listen Up! Listen Up
- Parade and Provost - webbing will be
spotless white - infantry putties green
nowhere in this man's army
is anything butttt
clean!
and I'll have your guts
for garters if you let Me down
or Your Squad - We're Team
Listen Up! Listen Up
Today - camouflage that tank
that truck - forget about the bloody
muck!
focus on survival - nothing at all
is just green, "clean" is now
officially, a dirty word his rangy body
stalks the ammo-dump
barking instructions
screaming frustration - the nets tangle
bronze olive and brown little toggles
plastic fabric feathering the
lancing mountain breeze
later on manoeuvres which
range into the night - colour-patched faces
come against each other in fright
- on the route-march
metal - cups dixies daggers - klutzy
battle paraphernalia hangs clanking
from web-belts and laden packs
while testosterone-laden youth
hacks through forest undergrowth
politics/driven/terrorists
in a dreary comic-tragic theatre
this theatre of war