Lawrence Hall, HSG
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
