Lawrence
Hall
https://hellopoetry.com/lawrence-hall/
poeticdrivel.blogspot.com
“You in the West Have No Idea…”
You in the West have no idea what
it’s like to be ruled by peasants.
-Mihai in Robert D. Kaplan’s Balkan
Ghosts, p. 138
Oh,
yes
We
do
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.
Lawrence
Hall
https://hellopoetry.com/lawrence-hall/
poeticdrivel.blogspot.com
“You in the West Have No Idea…”
You in the West have no idea what
it’s like to be ruled by peasants.
-Mihai in Robert D. Kaplan’s Balkan
Ghosts, p. 138
Oh,
yes
We
do
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