After three days of arguing the armistice was signed

in the French general’s private train

at a siding in the forest of Compiegne.

The Kaiser left for exile in Holland.

The military, unwilling to admit defeat,

still surrendered guns and planes.

No one told the people how bad things were.

A German corporal, recovering

after being gassed the month before,

a misfit who...

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