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ON THE SQUARE

 

On the square, tumbled out

 

—after the early alarm of the billet corporal’s clatter

        on the left-open-all-night door

        and his ee-yi summons, ‘Hands Off Cocks!’;

—after early drubbing of faces in cold-water troughs

        and cheek-hacking with blunt razors;

...

   

(For full text see the Kindle ebook The Nature of Things (Collected Poems) by Alan Marshfield)

   

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