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And so to day they lay him away	A
the boy nobody knows the name of	B
the buck private the unknown soldier	C
the doughboy who dug under and died	D
when they told him to that's him	E
	-
Down Pennsylvania Avenue to day the riders go	F
men and boys riding horses roses in their teeth	G
stems of roses rose leaf stalks rose dark leaves	H
the line of the green ends in a red rose flash	I
	-
Skeleton men and boys riding skeleton horses	J
the rib bones shine the rib bones curve	K
shine with savage elegant curves	L
a jawbone runs with a long white slant	M
a skull dome runs with a long white arch	N
bone triangles click and rattle	O
elbows ankles white line slants	L
shining in the sun past the White House	L
past the Treasury Building Army and Navy Buildings	L
on to the mystic white Capitol Dome	P
so they go down Pennsylvania Avenue to day	A
skeleton men and boys riding skeleton horses	L
stems of roses in their teeth	G
rose dark leaves at their white jaw slants	L
and a horse laugh question nickers and whinnies	L
moans with a whistle out of horse head teeth	G
why who where	Q
	-
'The big fish eat the little fish	R
the little fish eat the shrimps	L
and the shrimps eat mud '	-
said a cadaverous man with a black umbrella	S
spotted with white polka dots with a missing	T
ear with a missing foot and arms	L
with a missing sheath of muscles	L
singing to the silver sashes of the sun	U
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And so to day they lay him away	A
the boy nobody knows the name of	B
the buck private the unknown soldier	C
the doughboy who dug under and died	D
when they told him to that's him	E
	-
If he picked himself and said 'I am ready to die '	-
if he gave his name and said 'My country take me '	-
then the baskets of roses to day are for the Boy	V
the flowers the songs the steamboat whistles	L
the proclamations of the honorable orators	L
they are all for the Boy that's him	E
	-
If the government of the Republic picked him saying	T
'You are wanted your country takes you'	W
if the Republic put a stethoscope to his heart	X
and looked at his teeth and tested his eyes and said	Y
'You are a citizen of the Republic and a sound	Z
animal in all parts and functions the Republic takes you'	W
then to day the baskets of flowers are all for the Republic	A2
the roses the songs the steamboat whistles	L
the proclamations of the honorable orators	L
they are all for the Republic	A2
	-
And so to day they lay him away	A
and an understanding goes his long sleep shall be	B2
under arms and arches near the Capitol Dome	P
there is an authorization he shall have tomb companions	L
the martyred presidents of the Republic	A2
the buck private the unknown soldier that's him	E
	-
The man who was war commander of the armies of the Republic	A2
rides down Pennsylvania Avenue	C2
The man who is peace commander of the armies of the Republic	A2
rides down Pennsylvania Avenue	C2
for the sake of the Boy for the sake of the Republic	A2
	-
And the hoofs of the skeleton horses	L
all drum soft on the asphalt footing	T
so soft is the drumming so soft the roll call	D2
of the grinning sergeants calling the roll call	D2
so soft is it all a camera man murmurs 'Moonshine '	-
	-
Look who salutes the coffin	E2
lays a wreath of remembrance	L
on the box where a buck private	F2
sleeps a clean dry sleep at last	G2
look it is the highest ranking general	O
of the officers of the armies of the Republic	A2
	-
Among pigeon corners of the Congressional Library they	A
file documents quietly casually all in a day's work	H2
this human document the buck private nobody knows the	S
name of they file away in granite and steel with music	I2
and roses salutes proclamations of the honorable	O
orators	L
	-
Across the country between two ocean shore lines	L
where cities cling to rail and water routes	L
there people and horses stop in their foot tracks	L
cars and wagons stop in their wheel tracks	L
faces at street crossings shine with a silence	L
of eggs laid in a row on a pantry shelf	J2
among the ways and paths of the flow of the Republic	A2
faces come to a standstill sixty clockticks count	K2
in the name of the Boy in the name of the Republic	A2
	-
A million faces a thousand miles from Pennsylvania Avenue	C2
stay frozen with a look a clocktick a moment	L2
skeleton riders on skeleton horses the nickering high horse	L
laugh	M2
the whinny and the howl up Pennsylvania Avenue	C2
who why where	Q
	-
So people far from the asphalt footing of Pennsylvania	S
Avenue look wonder mumble the riding white jaw	N2
phantoms ride hi eeee hi eeee hi yi hi yi hi eeee	O2
the proclamations of the honorable orators mix with the	S
top sergeants whistling the roll call	D2
	-
If when the clockticks counted sixty	B2
when the heartbeats of the Republic	A2
came to a stop for a minute	F2
if the Boy had happened to sit up	P2
happening to sit up as Lazarus sat up in the story	B2
then the first shivering language to drip off his mouth	Q2
might have come as 'Thank God ' or 'Am I dreaming '	-
or 'What the hell' or 'When do we eat '	-
or 'Kill 'em kill 'em the '	-
or 'Was that a rat ran over my face '	-
or 'For Christ's sake gimme water gimme water '	-
or 'Blub blub bloo bloo '	-
or any bubbles of shell shock gibberish	R
from the gashes of No Man's Land	R2
	-
Maybe some buddy knows	L
some sister mother sweetheart	X
maybe some girl who sat with him once	L
when a two horn silver moon	S2
slid on the peak of a house roof gable	O
and promises lived in the air of the night	T2
when the air was filled with promises	L
when any little slip shoe lovey	M2
could pick a promise out of the air	Q
	-
'Feed it to 'em	U2
they lap it up	P2
bull bull bull '	-
Said a movie news reel camera man	V2
Said a Washington newspaper correspondent	L2
Said a baggage handler lugging a trunk	W2
Said a two a day vaudeville juggler	C
Said a hanky pank selling jumping jacks	L
'Hokum they lap it up ' said the bunch	X2
	-
And a tall scar face ball player	C
Played out as a ball player	C
Made a speech of his own for the hero boy	V
Sent an earful of his own to the dead buck private	F2
'It's all safe now buddy	B2
Safe when you say yes	L
Safe for the yes men '	-
	-
He was a tall scar face battler	C
With his face in a newspaper	C
Reading want ads reading jokes	L
Reading love murder politics	L
Jumping from jokes back to the want ads	L
Reading the want ads first and last	G2
The letters of the word JOB 'J O B '	-
Burnt like a shot of bootleg booze	L
In the bones of his head	Y
In the wish of his scar face eyes	L
	-
The honorable orators	L
Always the honorable orators	L
Buttoning the buttons on their prinz alberts	L
Pronouncing the syllables 'sac ri fice '	-
Juggling those bitter salt soaked syllables	L
Do they ever gag with hot ashes in their mouths	L
Do their tongues ever shrivel with a pain of fire	C
Across those simple syllables 'sac ri fice'	L
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There was one orator people far off saw	L
He had on a gunnysack shirt over his bones	L
And he lifted an elbow socket over his head	Y
And he lifted a skinny signal finger	C
And he had nothing to say nothing easy	L
He mentioned ten million men mentioned them as having gone west	Y2
mentioned them as shoving up the daisies	L
We could write it all on a postage stamp what he said	Y
He said it and quit and faded away	A
A gunnysack shirt on his bones	L
	-
Stars of the night sky	Z2
did you see that phantom fadeout	Y
did you see those phantom riders	L
skeleton riders on skeleton horses	L
stems of roses in their teeth	G
rose leaves red on white jaw slants	L
grinning along on Pennsylvania Avenue	C2
the top sergeants calling roll calls	L
did their horses nicker a horse laugh	M2
did the ghosts of the boney battalions	L
move out and on up the Pot	Y