Thanks, Amos. Very appropriate, and nice to see that whole poem. Auden himself ranged from the sublime to the ridiculous. I always loved this bit of his doggerel:

As the poets have mournfully sung,
Death comes to the innocent young
To the rolling in money,
The screamingly funny
And those that are very well hung.
- W.H. Auden

The Winston C Pub denizens were counter-culture? Sure, in the sense that they were MODS, effete poseurs who spent hundreds on their fashionable garb. I've always been of the second-hand clothing ilk, and still am!