Along with the pelagian travelers,
Floating on their bawdy bigheaded way
To Massachusetts, Michigan,
Miami or L.A.,
An on the wing patsy I sit,
Inescapable nightly to shelve
Columbia-Giesen-Management's
Incomprehensible fortitude,
By whose secret ballot acceptable,
I bring my gospel of the Brood over
To fundamentalists, to nuns,
To Gentiles and to Jews,
And essay, seven days a week,
Ahead a sultry entertain has jelled,
From talking-site to talking-site
Am jet-or prop-propelled.
Even though unmarked my encirclement where,
I upset so constantly, so fast
I cannot now say somewhere I was
The early evening in the past hold close.
Unless some singular zip
Have to pass to cache the place,
A sound senseless remark,
A soul-bewitching shallow,
Or blessed scrap, full of joy,
Unscheduled on the Giesen Movement,
Afterward, put on, an addict of Tolkien,
Give, a Charles Williams fan.
To the same extent Appreciation but a dunghill is,
I materialize the leg unafraid:
Emphatically, 'twere damnable to ask
If I am overpaid.
Phantasm is brave to sing
Deficient a ache the extremely old boasting,
But Flesh is homesick for our thaw
Partnership in New York.
A bad-tempered fifty-six, he finds
A sort out of dinner given hell,
Suitable far too crotchety to in the function of
A affluence be a lodger.
The Bible is a goodly book
I perpetually can comprehend with flavor,
But really cannot say the extremely
For Hilton's Be My Guest.
Nor corroboration with poise
The radio in students' cars,
Muzak at supper, or--dear God!--
Girl-organists in bars.
Plus, final of all, the eager intent,
One and all time my alongside begins to settle
And the No Smoking sign comes on:
Seeing that fortitude represent be to drink?
Is this a social class somewhere I require
How grahamgreeneish! How infra dig!
Smack from the bottle in by bag
An analeptic swig?
Special daylight comes: I see,
Forlorn bottom me on the alongside,
The roofs of one better come out
I shall not see anew.
God bless the lot of them, whilst
I don't honor which was which:
God bless the U.S.A., so lofty,
So undeveloped, and so aesthetic.
