Buckskin & Broadcloth by Sheila M.F. Johnston
Author:Sheila M.F. Johnston
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Natural Heritage Books
In this poem Pauline lampoons her wildly successful poem “The Song My Paddle Sings.”
HIS MAJESTY, THE WEST WIND
Once in a fit of mental aberration I wrote some stanzas to the western wind,
A very stupid, maudlin invocation, That into ears of audiences I’ve dinned.
A song about a sail, canoe and paddle Recited I, in sailor flannels dressed,
And when they heard it people would skiddadle,
Particularly those who had been west.
For they, alas, had knowledge, I was striving
To write of something I had never known,
That I had ne’er experienced the driving
Of western winds across a prairie blown.
I never thought when grinding out those stanzas,
I’d live to swallow pecks of prairie dust,
That I’d deny my old extravaganzas,
And wish his Majesty distinctlycussed.
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