Mabel’s Plight

“Where do you summer, Mabel dear?”

“You do not know, why that is queer.

I thought you always planned ahead

Four months at least,” Miss Gladys said.

“I have,” said Mabel, “Heretofore,

     Her roguish eyes a glowing;

But now I can’t decide to go

Until, you see – until I know

Where George and Fred and Frank and Will,

And Tom and Ned and Jack and Phil

              Are going.”

March 27, ‘97

Camb. Press,

July 16, ‘97