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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PROFITLESS TALK, by WALT MASON Poet's Biography
First Line: It is a pleasant thing to find a man of cultivated
Last Line: Pleasant 'tis, my friends, to view the man who talks of something new!
Subject(s): Conversation; Friendship; Talk
First Line: It is a pleasant thing to find a man of cultivated
Last Line: Pleasant 'tis, my friends, to view the man who talks of something new!
Subject(s): Conversation; Friendship; Talk
IT is a pleasant thing to find a man of cultivated mind, whose spiel is tinged
with sparkling wit, whose every comment makes a hit. It is a luxury to meet a
delegate upon the street, who springs a subject not so old as to be spotted
green with mold. Your grateful eye upon him beams—for one grows tired of
whiskered themes, of hearing people say their say on ancient topics, day by day.
When I go down the thoroughfare, to get some goose grease for my hair, I see my
friends toward me walk, when they are distant half a block. "Now, here comes
Jinks," I sadly sigh, "and he will talk of prices high, and give the government
rebuke for being such a beastly fluke. And here comes Ebenezer Dorr, who'll rant
away about the war; and here comes J. Leander Bain, with woman suffrage on his
brain." I know just what they all will say—I hear them say it every day.
I'd gladly dodge them if I could, and climb an elm tree made of wood. How
pleasant 'tis, my friends, to view the man who talks of something new!
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