Over here in Europe
From the land of Ford,
you send us a pretty lousy human export:
Paris and Greece are overrun by your mediocre middle class,
These tourists, loud and turgid,
are spiritually putting their feet on the table,
showing up irksome everywhere;
and every second sentence begins with the words:
"Over there in America ..."
Over there in America there are two kinds of law
(for poor and rich) — there is good and bad;
there are those and these: Lewis and Mencken,
and dollar-chasers, thinking in dollars.
Over there in America there are Republicans
and utterly judgmental Puritans.
You have strength, youth, and silver —
but you are not the measure of all things,
over there in America.
Over here in Europe, the woman
is not a harem-wife without lower body —
over here in Europe, black skin is
not leprosy for which extr…Keep reading with a 7-day free trial
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