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left her happy home
for him."
XXII
Still joy is rubbernecking on the street,
Still hikes the Mags' parade at
five o'clock,
Still does the masher march around the block
Pining in
vain some hothouse plant to meet;
Still does the rounder pull your leg
to treat,
Where flows the whisky sour or russet bock,
And the store
clothing dummies in a flock
Keep good and busy following their feet.
Rats! cut this out; for I'm a last year's champ;
Into the old bone
orchard am I blowing,
So with the late lamented let me camp,
My
walkers to the graveyard daisies toeing,
And shaking this too upish
generation,
Pass checks through cigarette asphyxiation.

Epilogue
To just one girl I've tuned my sad bazoo,
Stringing my pipe-dream off
as it occurred,
And as I've tipped the straight talk every word,
If
you don't like it you know what to do.
Perhaps you think I've handed
out to you
An idle jest, a touch-me-not, absurd
As any
sky-blue-pink canary bird,
Billed for a record season at the Zoo.
If that's your guess you'll have to guess again,
For thus I fizzled in a
burst of glory,
And this rhythmatic side-show doth contain
The sum
and substance of my hard-luck story,
Showing how Vanity is still on
deck
And Humble Virtue gets it in the neck.
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