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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TOURIST TIME, by FRANCIS REGINALD SCOTT
First Line: This fat woman in canvas knickers
Last Line: O rapid transit!
Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, F. R.
Subject(s): Tourists
First Line: This fat woman in canvas knickers
Last Line: O rapid transit!
Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, F. R.
Subject(s): Tourists
This fat woman in canvas knickers
Gapes seriously at everything.
We might be a city of the dead
Or cave men
Instead of simple town folk.
We have nothing to show
That can't be seen better somewhere else,
Yet for this woman the wonder ceases not.
Madam, the most extraordinary thing in this town
Is the shape of your legs.
O communication!
O rapid transit!
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