'In Memoriam'
Dysentery, virulent diarrhoea,
dengue fever, cholera, malaria
and gross malnutrition.
Add a surfeit of brutality and you
have a railway.
Not any old railway.
This one is special.
As hundreds of brave men
would attest, if they were alive.
jerry hughes
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/burma-railway-1942-1943/