Classic Poem

Among the coffee cups and soup toureens walked Beauty
Casual, but not unconscious of his power
Gathering dishes mucked with clinging macaroni
Unbearable in his spasmatic beauty
Sovereign in Simon's Restaurant and wreathed in power
The monarch of a kingdom yet unruled.

Now regal at a table in the Starlite Club sits Beauty
Casual but not unconscious of his power
Kept by a Mr Blatz who manufactures girdles
Unbearable in his spasmatic beauty
Counting with kingly eye the subjects of his power
Who sleep with beauty and are unappeased.