Over at the river's bank <br />stands my buddy, Mellow Frank, <br />thinking of the German Tank <br />that he observed right where it sank <br />they saved the captain, what a crank <br />he chewed tobacco and he stank <br />with two policemen at his flank <br />the one a colonel, just by rank <br />his stare was serious, almost blank <br />the younger cop, looked like he shrank <br />from the 3 stars of higher rank <br />his name tag showed him to be Hank <br />the captain of the ship said 'WanK' <br />he'd set his sail at Bitterlenk.<br /><br />Herbert Nehrlich<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/war-memoirs/