Buckskin & Broadcloth by Sheila M.F. Johnston

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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