Mad Jack (Scene 4) Poem by John Fenton Mcleish

mad jack
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scene 4
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Siegfried arrives at the docks with his mother and hamo in a carriage.The troop ships are birthed at the wharf and thousands upon thousands of soldiers are boarding.
Siegfried and his family are standing beside the gang plank.
'Siegfried! '
Siegfried turns to see wilfred, david and robert walking towards him.They've come to say cheerio.
Siegfried smiles, he gives them all a hug, 'I read your book will, it's brilliant', he hands it to wilfred.
Wilfred flicks through it.It has been heavily annotated by siegfried.
Siegfried, 'I added some suggestions will, hope you don't mind'.
Wilfred doesn't mind, he adores siegfried, 'Thanks siegfried'.
The naval officers begin blowing their whistles.Last boarding call.
Everybody's teary eyed and sad.Farewells usually are.
Siegfried walks up the gang plank and waves goodbye from the ships deck.The gangplanks are pulled in and the ship begins slowly moving away from the wharf.
Siegfried continues waving till they're out of sight.
From this moment on he will never be the same.
The horrors of trench warfare will change siegfried and his poetry forever.
He walks to the stern of the ship and looks back at england, and his old life, slowly disappearing into the distance.
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