Wielder of words is steeped within traditional verbs And curiously a dented top hat Discovered in the moonlit Laundromat A busted cheroot is smoking on the heel of his boot His opera is torn thru' the haste of operatic oyster Eating evenings of waste Sleek astrakhan, reclining on a chippendale stand So sad they should be owning a man who's Thicker than the forestry from where they began. Robard de Font Le Roy