Mack Hall
mhall46184@aol.com
A Hitchhiker Arrested
Hunched
in his football letter jacket, he,
Graduated
into anonymity,
Flogged
by his demons through the winter air,
Screams
out his might-have-beens to the sirens
there.
The former address, "reactionary drivel," was a P. G. Wodehouse gag that few ever understood to be a mildly self-deprecating joke. Drivel, perhaps, but not reactionary. Neither the Red Caps nor the Reds ever got it.
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