I LIKE to hear—yes, yes!—I like to hear The music of a big brass band. I love the tone Of the slide trombone [@3Bus. of slide trombone@1] And the saxophone [@3Bus. of saxophone@1] So grand. But I want to be General utility— I want to try That baby-cry [@3Bus. of baby-cry@1]; Want to play the rattle [@3Bus. of rattle@1] and the castanet [@3Bus. of castanet@1]; Want to bang the tom-tom [@3Bus. of tom-tom@1] and the tambourette [@3Bus. of tambourette@1]; Want to jangle That old triangle [@3Bus. of triangle@1]; Cut a caper With the old sandpaper [@3Bus. of sandpaper@1]; Ring those sleighbells [@3Bus. of sleighbells@1] and those chimes [@3Bus. of chimes@1] And crack that whip [@3Bus. of whip@1] about a million times. I want to beat that thunder-sheet [@3Bus. of thunder-sheet@1] I like the smash of the old glass-crash [@3Bus. of glass-crash@1] I want to go on—yes, go on— I want to go on—yes, go on— I want to go on a musical jag! I want to have a symphonical souse Like a syncopated [@3Bus. of syncope@1] Richard Strauss. I want to play—hooray!— All day—hooray!— With facility And agility That General Utility Ra-a-a-g! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: TENNESSEE CLAFLIN SHOPE by EDGAR LEE MASTERS PARTING AT MORNING by ROBERT BROWNING TO THE WATER NYMPHS DRINKING AT THE FOUNTAIN by ROBERT HERRICK THE WORMS AT HEAVEN'S GATE by WALLACE STEVENS THE LETTER; EDWARD ROWLAND SILL, DIED FEBRUARY 27, 1887 by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH THE SHEPHERD O' THE FARM by WILLIAM BARNES FRAGMENTS OF A POEM ON THE EXCELLENCE OF CHRISTIANITY by JAMES HAY BEATTIE SONG, FR. A VISION OF GIORGIONE: GEMMA'S SONG ON THE WAY by GORDON BOTTOMLEY |