Cul-de-sac

[Magpie]

Thanks Dale,
that was excellent advice regarding the footnote, it just looks so much neater and less distracting. I think that the humour part of the note was a kind of apology to the reader for it not being a straight forward read.
I have included the em dashes as suggested also. It actually made me realise that I have no em dash on my keyboard so I copy and pasted from wiki, I will make more use of the em dash in the future now I know it exists.
I feared a bit for this poem because I realised it was very 'British', so I'm pleased to know that there was a way to make it work and understood.

Thanks for the advice, much appreciated.

Mark