Fill a Veen

[Michael Eisenstadt]

Then the orders came and said retreat
That no man would be seen on the city streets
So across the bay we moved at night
Away from Manila and out of sight
Deep into the jungles of Bataan
Where 15,000 were to make a stand

Is this the poem? The complete text
of Bataan Death March is at
http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/8967/

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Byron Black" <blacky@cbn.net.id>
> By the way I'm looking and looking without success for a poem called
BATAAN
> DEATH MARCH and it's not by Randall Jarrell but it's like one of his
poems,
> and I've gone 12 dimensions and sideways in Google to try and unearth it
(or
> the poet). Something about "barebacked streets" in the USA bringing to
mind
> the death march.