And a knife stuck in his chest.”
That’s the swing of the most noted poem of the tropics, “The Far East,” an excerpt from which follows, is familiar to Philippine war veterans:
“By the mud hole down in Subic
Looking lazy at the bay,
There’s a goo-goo dame awaiting,
And I think I hear her say:
‘Come you back you malo soldier
Come you back from o’er the sea,
Come you back and pay your jaw-bone,
Por-a-que! You jaw-bone me?’”