After such a long time, I should have guessed you were doing something exciting like writing poetry. How nice!!!
It's a good poem K, but I suspect you've half-inched it from someone...
I take it your literary number is because of the passing of the 'Travelling Sorting Office' into retirement. Arrr you knew you had left the city centre around chucking out time when you were stopped at the level crossing next to Canterbury West by it - Caz
The poem, as you so eloquently put it, was half inched from WH Auden (not WH Smith). And yes, that's why. No further comment m'lud.