A New Disease

Mike Murphy’s Billy goat is dead,

     “Peace to his soul,” said Micky;

And to the funeral he wore

     His best white shirt and dicky.

O, yes, he had a growth inside

     The doctors couldn’t lance, sir;

He got into the oil workers yard

     And died from a big cansir.

March 27, ‘97

Camb. Press,

May 15, ‘97