Original poem, written around 1965 as a play on Edgar Allan’s poem “The Raven”.

Once upon a mid-watch dreary
  as I pondered weak and weary
over many monstrous volumes
  of the Nuky-Poo School lore
As I nodded, nearly napping
  from the walls there came a rapping
There came a most atrocious rapping
  from the steam pipe near the floor

As I jerked out of my slumber
  and dialed the barracks check in number
And said that all things were secure
  in these barrack I abhor.
I thought again of my recruiter
  my great old U.S.N. recruiter
That great old bull-shitting recruiter
  Re-enlist now?  Never more ...

 
Found in an old notebook on an undated, faded sheet of paper. It was written with a mechanical pencil and capitalization and punctuation is as shown.