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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HIGH PRICES, by WALT MASON Poet's Biography
First Line: Our forebears, whose bright shades are soaring
Last Line: Went speedin', our fierce h. C. Of l.
Subject(s): Cost Of Living; Money
First Line: Our forebears, whose bright shades are soaring
Last Line: Went speedin', our fierce h. C. Of l.
Subject(s): Cost Of Living; Money
OUR forebears, whose bright shades are soaring where noble anthems swell, while
here on earth did little roaring about H. C. of L. Of simple manners, they went
plugging around the mundane scene; they had no wish to go chug-chugging, or burn
up gasoline. To Mother Nature they were closer; they did not spend their brass,
for canned provisions, with the grocer, but raised their garden sass. The barber
seldom saw their money into his cashbox drop; when hair and whiskers got too
funny, their wives would shear the crop. They went to roost at early gloaming,
tired by the toilsome day; you never saw our grandsires roaming along the Great
White Way. They read no fiction, light and shallow, they sought no movie shows;
they greased their boots with mutton tallow, and wore no underclothes. If they
could journey back from Eden, and watch us for a spell, they'd understand, as we
went speedin', our fierce H. C. of L.