MARCHING PAEANS
The stars go crazy and spume
like the soldier who had
an epileptic attack during the exercises.
Was it true or he pretended?
However he didn’t escape the exercises
by going to the camp hospital.
We shall never escape if we get sick or die.
I wanted to say this to the man next to me
but he kept on singing marching paeans.
Manolis Aligizakis 