Oxana Timofeeva
Undead Soldiers
The medical commission said
A little prayer to their maker,
Which done, they dug with a holy spade
The soldier from god’s little acre,
When the doctor examined the soldier gay
Or what of him was left,
He softly said: This man’s 1-A,
He’s simply evading the draft.
—Bertolt Brecht, “Legend of the Dead Soldier,” 1918
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