Said King Pompey

Said King Pompey,

the emperor's ape

Shuddering black in his

temporal cape

Of dust: "The dust is everything -

The heart to love

And the voice to sing

Indianapolis,

And the Acropolis,

Also the hairy sky that we

Take for a coverlet comfortably."...

Said the Bishop

Eating his ketchup

"There still remains Eternity

(Swelling the diocese) -

That elephantiasis

The flunkeyed and trumpeting Sea!"