The Parrot and Other Poems Steve Voake Wallace has to be responsible

Wallace has to be responsible

As his interest becomes an obsession

It's not like they don't have enough to be dealing with

Particularly from the new Minister for Modernisation

When he flees to Brighton after an explosive break-up

The Parrot and Other Poems Steve Voake Wallace has to be responsibleAs Wodehouse himself wrote, 'Most poets are more to be pitied than censured. What happens is that they are lured on to the downward path by the fatal fascination of the limerick form. It is so terribly easy to compose the first two lines of a limerick, and, that done, the subject finds it impossible to stop. (Compare the case of the tiger cub, which, at first satisfied with a bowl of milk, goes in stritly for blood after taking its initial coolie).