Terry Ireland Poet Rhyme

Section 69

Catch 22 was fiction
Appealing to a humour like mine
But there was nothing very funny
About Section 69.

The army ran on regulations.
Obey them and you'd be fine
But, beware of that ubiquitous
Queens Regs Section 69.
Devised for situations
Where no others would fit
It took daring luck and skill
To wriggle out from under it.
If they wanted to get you
And couldn't find a way 
Section 69 
Was brought into play.

Conduct Detrimental, 
Which was never defined,
Conduct Unbecoming,
All under Section 69.
A face that didn't fit,
A body deemed too tall,
It didn't really matter 
69 covered all.
Two left feet,
A big hairy nose,
Sticky out big ears,
Yes it covered  all those.

Every single squaddie
At sometime would meet
That fanatic disciplinarian
With his blank charge sheet.
The only defence really 
Was to outrageously lie
if the CO was in good mood 
It might  just get you by.
So many situations
That were hard to define
But in the end there was always
Good old Section 69.

Catch 22 was fiction
Appealing to a humour like mine
But there was nothing very funny
About Section 69.

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