Classic Poem

For the new Freudian opera.

" Things are never what they seem;
Yesternight I had a dream:
Breasted I the billows stormy.
Please interpret that one for me. "
" I can do
That for you. "

" Swimming when the sea is wavy
Means you'd like to join the navy.
Dreaming of untroubled swimmin'
Means that you love thirty women. "
" I agree —
Thirty-three. "

" In my dream I went to shop
For a certain razor strop
Advertised in magazines.
Tell me, doctor, what that means. "
" That is plain,
I maintain. "

" Wanamaker's, Hearn's, and Gimbel's —
These are hymeneal symbols:
Razor strops, — no use to smother
Truth, — you rather like your mother. "
" Tra la lee!
Mercy me! "