It is now twenty minutes past three in the morning
We just had two inches of rain in the last hour
The ground in front of my house is flooded
My wife is asleep
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Ah, yes, jail, jail...lovely jail....where you rest, read, write, eat three meals a day, get a college degree, and when you come out...you teach in college...and it is all paid for by ME! Go gettem, Teddy Bear! !
Please don't go getting arrested Ted. We'd miss ya more than you know. t x
I am so-oo glad I live in a small rural village in a civilised part of the English countryside! This is so evocative. The mundane nature of the situation, the easy description, images of rain noise and sleeping dogs on a hot wet night - leading to the commonplace horror of the reality...I hope this isn't autobiographical! !