Naked as sin, an army towel
Covering my belly
Some of us blush, somehow

Knees turning to jelly
Next, next


I was still just a kid
There were a hundred like me
I followed a naked body

A naked body follwed me
next, next


I was still just a kid
When my innocence was lost
In a mobile army !@^%house

Gift from the army, free of cost
Next, next


Me, I really would have liked
A little touch of tenderness
Maybe a word, a smile

An hour of happiness
But, next, next


Oh, it wasn't so tragic
The high heavens did not fall
But how much of that time

I hated being there at all
Next, next Now I always will recall
The brothel truck, the flying flags

The queer lieutenant who slapped
Our $$#es as if we were !@$)s
Next, ne xt


I swear on the wet head
Of my first case of gonorrhea

It is his ugly voice
That I forever hear
Next, next


That voice that stinks of whiskey
Of corpses and of mud

It is the voice of nations
It is the thick voice of blood
Next, next


And since the each woman
I have taken to bed

Seems to laugh in my arms
To whisper through my head
Next, next


All the naked and the dead
Should hold each other's hands

As they watch me scream at night
In a dream no one understands
Next, next


And when I am not screaming
In a voice grown dry and hollow

I stand on endless naked lines
Of the following and the followed
Next, next


One day I'll cut my legs off
Or burn myself alive

Anything, I'll do anything
To get out of line to survive
Never to be next

Never to be next.