Southampton Row, Malborne Road, Charing Cross—
These names have no relation
To the buildings they partition
If one mutters, “I shall go to Euston Road,”
Imagination is relieved of all errands
And, decently ticketed, enters the omnibus.
If one muttered, “I shall go to protesting angles,
Surreptitiously middle-aged,
And find a reticent line to play with,”
One would violate