Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock

Harmonium (1923)

Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock

The houses are hauntedBy white night-gowns.None are green,Or purple with green rings,Or green with yellow rings,Or yellow with blue rings.None of them are strange,With socks of laceAnd beaded ceintures.People are not goingTo dream of baboons and periwinkles.Only, here and there, an old sailor,Drunk and asleep in his boots,Catches tigersIn red weather.

“Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock”  From Harmonium (1923)