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A Prisoner’s
Modest Dream
Some
humorist on parade: “When the war is over…I’m going to buy a German and keep him
the garden and count him.”
-Wodehouse in a German detention camp,
quoted in Frances Donaldson’s P. G. Wodehouse: A
Biography
When this is all over I pray for us
To sit in in my yard in some cheap Wal-Mart chairs
Each of us with a beer and a cigar
We could talk about the joys of fresh air
We could talk about our families and our work
And air-conditioning, and our home addresses
No longer A-43-Upper or B-24-Lower
We could sing about the Day of Jubilee
And give our voices and our lives to God
And there wouldn’t ever be a head count
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