109th Chorus

“Was it a bright afternoon,
        bright with seeing?”
Asks the literary type
        sitting in a chair
In an afternoon’s dream
And you see his buddy comin in,
Holding his coat to the hook
After closing the door,
You see it on a Thurber Cartoon,
In New Yorker, the funny
Fat figures V-cut and Z-cut
In squares, spilling cartons
of spaghetti to their orb ball
OON  LINE  ANOON
     POP  CLOUD-WORD-HOLE
     And people thumb thru
                Reg’ally
     And up comes the laugh, the yok,
                Funny Thurber
                Cartoon there,
     “Was it a bright afternoon,
bright with seeing?”
               looking over his newspaper
               or poetry pad


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