Uncle Walt [Walt Mason], the Poet PhilosopherMason, Walt
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Uncle Walt [Walt Mason], the Poet Philosopher
Mason, Walt
Poetry
I spent five cents for the Sunday "Dart," and hauled it home in a
two-wheeled cart; I piled the sections upon the floor, till they reached
as high as the kitchen door; I hung the chromos upon the wall, though
there wasn't room to hang them all, and the yard was littered some ten
feet deep with "comic sections" that made me weep; and there were
sections of pink and green, a woman's section and magazine, and sheets
of music the which if played would quickly make an audience fade; and
there were patterns for women's gowns and also for gentlemen's
hand-me-downs; and a false mustache and a rubber doll, and a deck of
cards and a parasol. Now men are busy with dray and cart, a-hauling away
the Sunday "Dart."
_The Nation's Hope_
The nation's sliding down the path that leads to Ruin's lair, and all of
Ruin's dogs of wrath will chew its vitals there; each day we deeper
plunge in grief; we'll soon have reached the worst; why don't we turn,
then, for relief, to William Randolph Hurst? It seems we haven't any
sense, that we these ills endure; he's told us oft, in confidence, that
he alone is pure; he is the bulwark of our hope--our last shield and our
first; then let's rely upon the dope of William Randolph Hurst. He
offers us the helping hand, he fain would be our guide; and still we
wreck this blooming land, and let all virtue slide; of all that is the
country's best we're making wienerwurst; O let us lean upon the breast
of William Randolph Hurst! He stands and waits, serene, sublime, he
beckons and he sings! He wears a halo all the time, and he is growing
wings! So let us quit the course that harms, forsake the things accurst,
and rest, like children, in the arms of William Randolph Hurst!
_Football_
The game was ended, and the noise, at last had died away, and now they
gathered up the boys where they in pieces lay. And one was hammered in
the ground by many a jolt and jar; some fragments never have been found,
they flew away so far. They found a stack of tawny hair, some fourteen
cubits high; it was the half-back, lying there, where he had crawled to
die. They placed the pieces on a door, and from the crimson field, that
hero then they gently bore, like soldier on his shield. The surgeon
toiled the livelong night above the gory wreck; he got the ribs adjusted
right, the wishbone and the neck. He soldered on the ears and toes, and
got the spine in place, and fixed a gutta-percha nose upon the mangled
face. And then he washed his hands and said: "I'm glad that task is
done!" The half-back raised his fractured head, and cried: "I call this
fun!"
_Health Food_
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