Nightmare Song

[Achebe]

Ronny got cancer of the asshole
and had to have it removed.
The space-time situation ............. Is it another way of saying 'out of this world'? 'space time' is not a good synonym...perhaps extraplanetary / extragalactic?
when he sat
afterwards, alienated him
from this world
 
of beer and women (
and the tough-guy sports.
Like W.B. Yeats with a toothache 
Ron spiralled into control
of his verse.
, their bodies) .......... nice, but this conflicts with the sentiment in the subsequent stanza
 
: and after coming back from the war
he laughed in the faces of heroes;
suffering is long, and time is fleeting
he said,
as he stood up one final time
and pissed on the graves of the Unknown Soldier ........... nice ending. Life is meaningless, there's no such thing as glory. Death is unheroic and banal. 'Battling against cancer' is also BS. But contradicts the sentiment in the previous stanza
 
                                         —Nightmare Song
  

The first two lines are powerful, and each stanza on its own is good. However, the three don't come together quite as yet.