While he was puffing out his jets of wit

Over his swollen-bellied pipe, one thinks,

One thinks, you know, of quite a lot of things.

(Dear unknown God, dear, queer-faced God,

Queer, queer, queer, queer-faced God,

You blanky God, be quiet for half minute,

And when I’ve shut up Rates, and sat on Naboth,

I’ll tell you half a dozen things or so.)

There goes a flock of starlings—

Now half a dozen years ago,