Friday, March 29, 2024

Battle Stations Aboard the Bismarck - poem

 

Lawrence Hall, HSG

Mhall46184@aol.com

 

Battle Stations Aboard the Bismarck

 

When general quarters sounded that morning in May

Did a seventeen-year-old apprentice cook

Rushing to his topside battle station

But remembering the chief’s daily admonitions

 

And the way his mother kept her kitchen clean

Notice on a galley table a speck of dust

And pause to brush it away

When general quarters sounded that morning in May

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