My first association with my hermaphrodite friend<\/p>\n
Was in a shell hole during the dark days of war<\/p>\n
I had dived into a water sodden pit to avoid the guns<\/p>\n
And found myself on top of a number of mutilated corpses<\/p>\n
It was then that I noticed that the corpse nearest to me<\/p>\n
Was displaying a female breast although the soldier was male<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Shortly after this I left the hole and returned to my trench<\/p>\n
Although I had been slightly wounded at least I was alive<\/p>\n
I was soon sent to the medical station and was seen by a doctor<\/p>\n
He dressed my painful but minor wound and left me alone for a while<\/p>\n
As I waited for his return I glanced into a covered station<\/p>\n
And saw the shell hole corpse very much alive and receiving treatment<\/p>\n
He was totally naked and had both a pair of breasts and a penis<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
I asked the doctor about this when he returned and was told<\/p>\n
That I should not tell anyone about what I had seen<\/p>\n
As a great number of the higher ranks were known hermaphrodites<\/p>\n
And this was a fact that had not been revealed to the soldiers in the field<\/p>\n
This disturbed me a great deal as I respected the ranks and did not consider their gender<\/p>\n
I then decided to change into a large black spider<\/p>\n
And spent the remainder of my war in a Belgium barn<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
After the war I set myself up as an art dealer in the Old Kent Road<\/p>\n
And was in the process of setting up an exhibition of tractors<\/p>\n
When my hermaphrodite friend walked in with his agent<\/p>\n
He was selling tractor etchings but did not recognise me<\/p>\n
I knew that it was him as he had retained his wartime scars<\/p>\n
We agreed a price and I added his tractor etchings to the exhibition<\/p>\n
I saw him one again in 1934 and then for the last time in 1936<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
In the summer of 1960 I sold my business and retired<\/p>\n
To the Weald of Kent where I purchased an ancient farmhouse<\/p>\n
And in time changed into a large black spider once again<\/p>\n
I remain there to this day behind the electrical junction box<\/p>\n
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