Franklin P. Adams

Capitolo 23

You telephonest or of the other thing;
While, when I ask of Byrant Ottanta-quattro,
Thou'rt occupied in some place around seventh floor--
I wish thee my soul every joy of Christmas,
But not a cent Or Elevator Boy!



Ballad of a Game annual Plant


A lot of a joke that refuses to die
  Counterweights on new as the seasons couples;
Immortal it strikes again us in the eye--
  Unchangeable and it bevels as the solar year.
  Moldy and moldy and yellow and clairvoyant,
Stronger, withal, that the most strong oak;
  Ancient and solemn and deadly and drear--
Down with the grandmother-funeral joke!

Soon as the snow you/he/she has forgotten to fly,
  All through the day of the "leathery sphere,"
Jokelets and portraits and verses that we spy
  All on the dear theme of his/her/their grandmother.
  Bonnets, umbrellas and buckets of beer
I/you/he/she arrange us and I/you/he/she make us the tickle to completely to the suffocation.
  But--on this matter our attitude is clear--
Down with the grandmother-funeral joke!

Foolishly gives back us we are able to a cake of blueberry;
  Cries to a king of comedy or ameer;
Simply the vulgar laughter when the boy of jestermen
  Marriage, a thing to which you/he/she should deride anybody.
  Things that in others they arouse a torn wound
All of our risibles simply the unyoke;
  But from this stand we am prepared not for veering:
Down with the grandmother-funeral joke!



THE ENVOI


Brothers in motley, the season is here;
  Small it is the advantage that we sadly invoke:
Butcher him/it, the assassins, jump on his/her ear!--
  Down with the grandmother-funeral joke!



A Declaration


Writers of baseball, attention!
  When you are again on the job--
When, in Your anger for invention,
  You with the hob of play of language--
The most greater part of Your drug that we will forgive,
  Although some ball of moth slaps;
But--cuts the "left garden,"
  You cut the initial sack.""

Inclination her "Encyclopedia of old poor Roget"
  For sentences I day-dream and strange;
And although on occasions you bore us,
  We will brake there from a sneer.