Those with few images, lyrics
in which doing and undoing
prevailed, there were conclusions
and many epithets.
To hell with what it might look like!
The idea of breakfast, to take one
example, was a favorite
in the evenings. Also,
the way fields shut down,
and the weight of the equipment.
In choruses full of objects
nothing civilian moved
but loud young men bent on silence
and backbreaking labors.
It was natural to welcome them
with triumphal marches.
Many would return in halves.
The songs, too, about their singing, are lies.
The truth is that some songs were obscene
and that there were no words for others.
What Songs the Soldiers Sang
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