Fort Soixante-Neuf

Four sheets to the thin desert winds

and decidedly worse for wear:

Monsieur Beau (real name Gary) Geste

and his floundering legionnaires.

Pissed in the drifting, swirling sands.

Three men, one isolated fort.

They may never see home again.

It's not turning out as they thought.

They fix their bayonets and charge

headlong into the mirage.

B.R. 11.05.2021

Kenneth Williams as Commandant Burger in 'Carry On... Follow That Camel' (1967)