<< Surely the 'pool' here is the office 'pool', the 'typing pool', rather than a swimming pool? It follows on from the office naturally, I think. >> Never looked at it that way, Mike...thanks for the angle.
Now that I look at it, although she jumps from topic to topic in Sex Kills, her condemnations seem to travel in pairs: All these jackoffs at the office The rapist in the pool Oh and the tragedies in the nurseries Little kids packin' guns to school The ulcerated ozone These tumors of the skin So I suppose lines 1-2 interrelate just as lines 3-4 & 5-6 do. But still, the phrase "typing pool" is about as antiquated as "stenographer", innit? I mean, we're all typists nowadays, aren't we? Bob NP: Maxwell, "Now/At The Party"
