Camouflage

Why have you got that writing on the back of your hand?
It's camouflage, I've just been fighting in the war of the words.
The battle took place on the pages of a dictionary.
Some soldiers painted themselves white and then wrote all over themselves.
You could hardly pick them out against the page.
The Alphabet is what my Mum told me I would need.
But I got shot.
By a canonball full stop.