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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
GRIEF UNIVERSAL, by WALT MASON Poet's Biography
First Line: It seems the cost of living is not a local ill; all
Last Line: The globe.
Subject(s): Grief; Sickness; Sorrow; Sadness; Illness
First Line: It seems the cost of living is not a local ill; all
Last Line: The globe.
Subject(s): Grief; Sickness; Sorrow; Sadness; Illness
IT seems the cost of living is not a local ill; all round the world it's giving
poor purchasers a chill. Beside the broad Nyanzas the people kick and roar, as
buyers do in Kansas, when at the corner store. Where knobby alligators infest
the stagnant Nile, it takes, to buy some taters, the poor consumer's pile. By
many an ancient river, by many a storied lake, men pay as much for liver as they
should pay for steak. Where sweet and spicy breezes blow soft o'er Ceylon's
isle, the purchaser of cheeses forgets to sing and smile. Among the hills of
Sweden, mid Greenland's snow and ice, the people's hearts are bleedin' when they
behold the price. Along the dark McKenzie, and by the languid Po, consumers, in
a frenzy, are lifting wails of woe. The Eskimo, when buying his tenderloin of
whale, the Hottentot, who's trying to eat a hemlock rail, all swell the angry
chorus, all weep and tear the robe; the grief we see before us extends around
the globe.
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