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.
Tuesday, February 23, 2016
How Lovely Not to be in Jail Tonight - poem
Lawrence Hall
Mhall46184@aol.com
How Lovely Not to be in Jail Tonight
How lovely not to be in jail tonight
And have to share a small and smelly space
Under an eternal fluorescent light
With a dude who don’t like yer race or yer face
How grand to have a bed that’s long enough
With sheets and pillows and blankets all clean
And not a bare mattress sour-stained and rough
Against a wall of cinder blocks in green
And howlings from a soul who has lost life’s fight -
How thankful not to be in jail tonight
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