Saturday, January 20, 2007
The Battle of Waterloo was won
on the playing fields of Eton.
--Wellington
Civilization
On the playing fields of Eton
I assumed my fair turn in New
Haven, bells of Harkness
like a vise.
Through mine fields since
missing the notices
haphazardly posted a-
mong the swells
of cricketers and footballers, in
rising dust of dusk, cool-edged.
“There's a good chap!” when
you miss your middle-class leg.
on the playing fields of Eton.
--Wellington
Civilization
On the playing fields of Eton
I assumed my fair turn in New
Haven, bells of Harkness
like a vise.
Through mine fields since
missing the notices
haphazardly posted a-
mong the swells
of cricketers and footballers, in
rising dust of dusk, cool-edged.
“There's a good chap!” when
you miss your middle-class leg.
