RKS Literature: The Suicidal Hanging of Francis Hinsley (Evelyn Waugh)

“They told me, Francis Hinsley, they told me that you were hung With red protruding eyeballs and black protruding tongue; I wept as I remembered how often you and I Had laughed about Los Angeles and now  ‘tis here you’ll lie;   Here pickled in formaldehyde and painted like a whore Shrimp pink incorruptible, not lostContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Suicidal Hanging of Francis Hinsley (Evelyn Waugh)”