Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE SOCIAL SWIM, by RAY CLARKE ROSE


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THE SOCIAL SWIM, by                    
First Line: The social swim! You know the rules
Last Line: The social swim.
Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States; Social Classes; Social Protest; Caste


The social swim! You know the rules—
A race for fortunes, flirts and fools;
For men who mock and maids who tease,
And where, at last, the least of these
May gain the prize and win the pools.

The game is taught in many schools
Where fashion finds too willing tools,
And folly swears that fate decrees
The social swim.

Don't cool your heels in vestibules
And think you 're "in"; the wooden stools
Of humble hearths, the pipes and cheese
Of comradeship, will better please;
Who knows it best most ridicules
The social swim.





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