If there are bottles in the kitchen emptied and letters
Unanswered in the diningroom. And the cook has returned to her
Family and the maid to her lover. Then I can go out into
The road before our house and stop the first passing truck
And say to the driver and his helper will you have a drink
With me gentlemen. I am lonely for my wife who is away buying pigeon
For my dinner this evening. Gentlemen I ask you not to
Forget today today was never before celebrated and we are
More beautiful than all the marble nudes in Italy stolen
From Greece or smuggled past the indifferent eyes of the
Octroi. All great cities in Europe have octrois but
All great octrois have not smugglers. The tax is small.
The risks are not great. The days of great misfortunes have
Passed. Guides are about all the museum entrances. Nevertheless
I would rather be Caesar's wife tonight than the cock Christ heard.