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us something?)

For another thing you have
transported me to Africa
I feel as if I had been there
& it makes me slightly annoyed
with the Waddlesworth Manor fittings
of the colossal bungalow where
you put your puppets -
because puppets they all
are, because somehow it
jars on the scrub, the camping
out, the lions & the niggers
in the beehive huts.

I admit I prefer Sligachan
now to Sligachan once and