<> Letters to Stanford Greacen Estate 1977 Aug 16th LHL Wednesday, March 16, 2016 TIFF GreacenStanford296 Letter Captain Fox, Germany, Punk Rockers English https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford296 LHL LHL Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford296.jpg LHL Archive Dead horses need no xxxx flogging. Which is not to say that novelty for its own sake is much use. Your detailed criticism is most useful and I'll incorporate some of yr suggestions into the poem. No,I haven't checked on whether thesd places are near each other• But I can't xxxabandon such lovely place-names in the name of geography and hope that "some such West- country place” gets me off the hook. Or I can simply plead "poetic licence". I've become Interested in the "story poem" and perhaps there will be more of this type of poem. I think I must say Auf Wiedersehen or even Goodbye to Capt. Fox who has been much with me for the past 6 years. Tomorrow evg there's a Group meeting here and Jack's going to read. I can't know how the boys and girls will react,but on the whole they are fairly polite to their elders. I get on pretty well with the 25 yr old lot whereas I didn't care for the generation just after xxxx ours. They are not reacting against the 40's about which they have an open mind. I've heard them call someone old-fashioned because they liked the Beatles! Today a 25 yr old colleagure explained what the Rink Bockers are all about and said he xx was too old to be one of them. Too old at 25! Going G'many 21st and back 1st Sept. (If you shd wish to write : C/0 Bohler, Gartenstr. 16 a, 789 Waldshut,Germany.) Love to you both, Robert DOn't know what Constable Sergeant said but expect he will know what will make best impression. Hope so,anyway. I cd do with sane Arts Council cash if only to prevent it going to the likes ol xxx xxxx xxx xxxx Text