Wednesday, November 6, 2019

Recruit Training: I Wasn't Rich, But I Jingled When I Marched - poem for Veterans' Day / Remembrance Day

Lawrence Hall
mhall46184@aol.com
poeticdrivel.blogspot.com

Recruit Training - I Wasn’t Rich, But I Jingled When I Marched

Dog tags for dogs and, for a time, for me
Old Uncle Sugar said my religion was CATH
(Had I remained a Methodist, a PROT)
My blood type was O POS (still is, I guess)

The Navy thought all that such a good idea
They made me wear a second tag just like it
On a second little chain attached to the first
All dangling down my skinny Gilligan chest

Beaded chains, tags, a Saint Christopher’s Medal -
I wasn’t rich, but I jingled when I marched

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