(Enter Spirit of Modern Poetry, a lady with bobbed hair, clad lightly in horn glasses and a sex-complex.)

SPIRIT OF MODERN POETRY

You're behind the times; quite narrow,

Don't you want

Culture for the masses?

MUSE

No; I am Greek; we never did.

Besides, it isn't culture.

CHORUS OF ELDERLY LADIES WHO APPRECIATE POETRY, (trotting by two by two on their way to a lecture, pause.)

Oh, how narrow! Oh, how shocking!