Franklin P. Adams

Capitolo 33

The pedestrian underpass, then the car of Yonkers--
A hour, perhaps an a little anymore.
I leave the house to 7.04--
I am in the office every day
At nine o'clock. Six rooms are everybody
We have, if you don't count the room--
Although it is far greater than more
The rooms that I have seen. Me hate to boast me
On my apartment;  but. . . "

    "Says, I have
The greatest, newer plot, more excellent--
Dramatic, humorous, and fresh--
And, although I am not in the profesh,
I will support this the small play of mine
Against Pinero, Fitch or Klein.
Sure fire! A knockout! Cannot lose!
His plot starts as this:
The present time--that is what they has
Possession--and then a modern plot.
Jack Hammond, hero the loves a girl:
Extremely jealous of an earl.
The earl, however... "

       Because contin-
Types of Ue that bloom _adinfin_?

_O tuneless bells!  Or worn-out bells!
  I feel--and so it does her--
The histories that each says
  But nobody gives listening to._



Office Mottoes


Witticism encouraging, inhaling,
  Framed above mine beautiful * the desk,
Never Shelley, Keats or Byring*
  Penned a sentence so picturesque!
But in me any inspiration
  You ride my low and prosaic eyebrow--
All about which I think are vacation
When I see that lucubration:


          NOW DO HIM/IT


When I see another sentence
  Framed on the wall of a brother,
Decision and repentance
  You don't flood at all o'er me
As I read that nugatories
  Counsel years written ago,
Only when one comes to borry[Footnote: it Entered under the Pure License of
                             1906.]
I keep in mind of that history of venerable old man:


          TELL HIM NO


Mottoes flattens and foolish mottoes,
    Proverbs stung I deprive of or the intelligence,
"HOLD A-PLUGGIN' WHEN IS HILLY!"
    "THE LIFE IS A TIGER:  CONQUER HIM/IT!"
Mottoeses of Office make me get tired
    And of the whole group of bromide
There is only a self the serious ones-
Ously likes, and that is the happy one:

            GONE Á. PRANZARE LUNCH



Metaphysics


A dark and dull and sad man--
Goes to ask him because he feels so badly him.