John Kay
Bully Beef
What was Bully Beef?
What colour was it?
Did you eat it hot or cold?
Was it solid, lumpy?
Sticky or runny?
How big were the cans?
How thin was the metal?
How big were the rats?
How sharp were their teeth?
Were they really like bayonets
when they gnawed and drilled
and peeled back the loose tin to crawl inside?
When the jackets were pierced, did it spurt out,
flake out, ooze or blob out?
Did the big rats suck it out, lick it out, slurp it, nibble it, gobble it, gulp?
Yuk! What colour were they? Did they
slice their snouts on the jagged steel?
Once inside, did they chew out a trench?
How did they see?
Did it get in their eyes, blind them?
How sharp were the teeth?
How long did it take before they realized they were trapped?
Too trapped to get out?
Going mad in the cans?
Too late to climb back out of the holes?
What colour was it?
Did you eat it hot or cold?
Was it solid, lumpy?
Sticky or runny?
How big were the cans?
How thin was the metal?
How big were the rats?
How sharp were their teeth?
Were they really like bayonets
when they gnawed and drilled
and peeled back the loose tin to crawl inside?
When the jackets were pierced, did it spurt out,
flake out, ooze or blob out?
Did the big rats suck it out, lick it out, slurp it, nibble it, gobble it, gulp?
Yuk! What colour were they? Did they
slice their snouts on the jagged steel?
Once inside, did they chew out a trench?
How did they see?
Did it get in their eyes, blind them?
How sharp were the teeth?
How long did it take before they realized they were trapped?
Too trapped to get out?
Going mad in the cans?
Too late to climb back out of the holes?
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