“Are you interested in knowing when and whom you will marry? What the year will bring you? If you will gain in a law- suit?… What are you best adapted for? If you have enemies and who?

The Colonel didn’t like him (my guess).
He called him Mr. Wilkinson-Noble
(there was another officer in the unit called Wilkinson).

They dribble down the High Street/ in dribs and drabs, on sticks,
the wrinkle-faced old women,/ the men with “past it” pricks,
slow among the mums who/ wrestle with push-chair kids,

Are women writing odes
to cocks that fuck them,
describing episodes

If you believe the novels
(and why shouldn’t you believe them?)
there are some passionate women who really let go and