Trot out the negro singers, ladies, clowns
and athletes to extol the morning.

Let the senator take out his dogs
to swim
and watch the sliding of the lake
below the smooth urns
ships cantabile
and oceanic near the stratospheric

The fair man in the public eye
has read the life of simple Jesus
undertaker of the West

Sylvia hails him from a torpedo roadster

He clears his title to her loins
gets shaved and trimmed in her venereal parlors,
rakes in on the wheel of love
his standing polished like a dental mirror
his old age lit up,
a Christmas tree