Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE ANOMALY, by WALT MASON


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THE ANOMALY, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: While riding in my buzz-buzz cart, I hit
Last Line: That swiftly hies, I'll always try to run him down in preference to other guys.
Subject(s): Curiosities & Wonders; Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness


WHILE riding in my buzz-buzz cart, I hit Bill Wax and spoiled his frame, and
knocked his marrow-bones apart, and he remarked, "I was to blame!" I said, "This

dark disaster, Bill, to my sad life new sorrow lends; I do not run my car to
kill or mutilate my dearest friends. I'll pay the surgeon if he'll fix the bones

I've broken, rent and bowed; and if you journey o'er the Styx, I'll see you have

a Palm Beach shroud." "It was my fault," I heard him say, "and you don't have to

pay a cent, for I was walking like a jay, and wasn't looking where I went. I
busted every rule, I think, which ought to govern gents on foot, and now you've

put me on the blink, I think a while I should stay put." Bill Wax shines
brighter than a star; Bill Wax deserves immortal fame; he says the owner of a
car is not in every case to blame! Hereafter, as I tour the town, in my new car

that swiftly hies, I'll always try to run him down in preference to other guys.





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