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You were only attached
For a very short time
And it's not very easy
To write you a rhyme.
But I liked knowing you
And I still hear your voice
And of my three room mates
You were the most choice
One was too ordinary
With no personality.
And one is so rude,
And has no versatility
You laughed at my nonsense
And made me at home
And now that you've gone
I feel all alone
I rush round the barracks
And talk to the cooks
I fling open windows
And get dirty looks
But there's no one to play with
And I hate Training Group
Inspecting the Grease Traps
And tasting the soup
The cat had had kittens
I had to drown five
I left only one of them save alive.
II
we don't talk about it more than we need. In the afternoon trailed off to see "This Happy Breed", & it was so good that we were quite cheered up. It is Noel Coward's latest production — he is quite British, especially since his American rebuff. It was excellent, & absolutely not to be missed. It is the story of a very ordinary English family from 1918 to 1939 & most beautifully done, & not a syllable that couldn't have been taken from the lives of any ordinary family. We went to bed quite early & read, & [? then] [? morning] , at about 10.30, when on the point of getting up, decided to try out some patent face-pack we procured a while ago. I put mine on with such enthusiasm, that when it dried
