'Make a less noise',
my grandad used to say.
'Keep silence
in the ranks'
our old naval cox'n
hoarsely barked,
and 'Tikho, tikho, gospoda'
gently hushed our
Russian tutor, so
what was with all these guys
that they were always trying
to shut us up?
Pete Crowther
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/in-other-words-shut-your-gob/
