Show Moonlight in the Poplars S Being a Dissertation n by Private Burke on Love Poverty Pi verty and andI War Var WarBY VarBY I BY RUTHERFORD CORBIN i I I went to see what my friend the sport sporting sporting I ing editor afterwards called King Kra Kramers Kramers mers Triumph and to endure a twelve minute event with fourteen seconds of happening and afterward the high lights i and the populace of Salt Lake City con consisting mostly of Individuals from Provo Prove New Ne York Des MoineS la Ia Ogden Oden and other oth r suburbs having baving butted in and I grown tiresome I sought the tIme homeward i trail of pipe smoke and poplars to retro retrospect I In a big bis walk carefully turned from the time incandescent and facing the natural fake Illumination I found on m a bench my m old friend Private BurKe Burice Seated l on the bench he lie was w s remarkably sober and contemplating con contemplating tem plating time the th twilight and the tIme poplars by bythe b I the time gate I sate beside him Where is Cassidy Casidy said I IA II IA I A man must get et sober said Private Burke to become acquaint I I ed with himself Cassidy C was an I I There are arc eleven ways was of getting I over a jag ja Rule I shake your fri youve too to many Rule Rui Ru II H a Turkish I f i bath rule HI ill Li tho te t o Reeley rule IV JV run i out of coin oin stale V r and last which is me ins mer insI I fr nu a dys s and ind not copyrighted more mor booze The l hc other six Ix Ive forgot r But added Private Burke solemnly its a long tOJ ways a s till payday pa day so o lets l ts hav a drink he added for Its a hard hardI I time I had laud finding you ou ouI I Burke Bur I asked were you yo looking for or at the time moon for said I 1 theres there ono on way WU of sobering up lip iBy By rights sir replica th honest I interruption to It res respectable of i o I 1 should reply VellY lly Shall I re c pi I will a ive c your our ur friends the they export t and amid an not what they the nr l You Veil Yo roe bee t toe tilt here hero in the shade alone save for a 3 movement in each of the dark dak Sot adjacent a Alone added the tIme Private thoughtfully you can crin be alone If I YO wind l tIme the signs si Dont throw rocks at mt time pears under the trees dont dontI I pick ick up the peaches in the th park and antI dont let em pick yo up tip he Ime concluded Alone as n the On Orchard And AndI by b the Wa w Wj was as it an apple or 01 a lemon I or an the tIme serpent set up I dunno unno said Private Burke They Thc sa saI say I trL thIL a makes the heart grow fon fonder fonder lder der derSo I So seem me ettin alone you ou to yourself you ou its lonely Is Tommy BuTke He is iH on the days da s thai thal were The TIme moonlight silvers the time poplars says you yon and antY the band is 15 There is 1 true lovers concealed In every shadow ind his heart henrt tur s back glimmering you in lu a dream of tIme the days that were From here on Laura Jean Libbey please copy oP I You look at me uniform Mars fus says sa you jou at th oui soul in every man he knows it or not noL Venus say sayi you vou ou and at the time moon The great mixer says sa s you He ought to be pinched and Ilot allowed in the park says you You s the Combination of a hangover and md Chauncey Chaunce Olcott said Private Burke Which is he added unfair to assume curne Nay Maj I borrow borro your tobacco tob cco and con eon continue continue m my efforts at reading your our mind Ive found it said sad Private Burke It is moonlIght over the lake of KIt Kil larrey larre Through tho the poplar the gentle light sifts as us dainty as ns a real re l lady picks up her skirts Terence Is bidding Nora ora goa bye Terence is a manly lad with the world before him Nora Kora ora has yellow hair hall excuse me interrupted Private BurKe Burie turned by the moonlight into spun gold old Her mouth is s like a rosebud rosabud Its It June and in the hedges edges the nightingales ales sing She says goodbye my lover and my mv myKIng myKing I King You will come to back to me He says pays The world is ig not wide enough nor time long enough for me not to find you ou again Hearts of gold she says never grow old what hat I should hould be says Private Burke but Ive been won wondering wondering dering show up and give me some I tobacco Its you said ald Private Burke I By the time moonlight and the music and andI I the hour I stretch across the line or orI I friendships Were Vere you ever in inlove InI Inlove love Tommy Burke I asked I Love said Private Burke Is a queer q eer I word Its been used to cover more sins than charity he lie said Id My uy y friend the poet he said or is it the thc philosopher or orIs orIs orIs Is says that only those who have known love bye poverty and n war have seen a full fun life My Iy life has been beel full said Private Burke LoVe Loti Lo poverty and war and ye take either of them too to seriously or ye e lose They are arc the stings stinson on the nettle of life II fe Grasp them and laugh and an live Or pass Dass them bv by b and pass on to a dandelion But dont take them seriously said sald Private Burke And is whisky whisk a fourth said I Never mix drinks across the mahogany any an of life M Vur r and whiskey makes a n coward Poverty anti and whiskey e u a a quitter and the th worst vor t of all at Is the time mn m n who vrho oho drinks bad whiskey wIth a good guO woman as its an ex ox excuse cure cUe Unless inless he ho raid taid its a man mail who good whisky k because of on a had ball woman f Voit od 01 with will have a drink said I 1 II paid Private Burko BurkoT I t T I give you ou said Mid I T rile te toast of Po lOP erty ty q I Ian have the prescription pres to me mc as rich m sj John D salt saId Private t Burke i j Ud td I J IVar IVar Var vs s trad arId irId Private Burke It lt ranks muke Hi th bricklayer erR tim tIlO it Its not mit 11 paid i IS t such cuch Im not a hero he lie said Im a regular Love Loo Lo aid nid I 1 In Jim the th glimmer of the gasoline lights light m 11 Iy conr e ey eyed ed d me m narrowly There is no answer ho he said making circles s with his glass on the tIme table There fht rc was others before w w went ent from Frisco was two It was a long I tr trip t I asked them both not simultaneous Ot but subsequent I 1 will not says sas th one ine ne For today sweetheart says I Today is not ours she says sa half of It t belongs to yesterday yest and the other h to tomorrow to orrow I will follow Cotlow you ou to the time end nd of the world in rags says sa the oth other r But site she sh missed the boat When hen I 1 came hack bad the lie one had hall divorced erl her imer husband husland and secured a R marriage e license for T r I Burke i anut nd md El anora And Ard the other said I the one in rags ago T S She had married a said Burke Burl c I looked ed her hl r up The Time other I J dodged by hiding behind a pile of boxes on the dock She got fat concluded Burke Burle S Love poverty and war said I take them all anti and never any an of them serious seriously ly iy Yes aid ald el Private Burk Burke once in Pa Fa I felt an inconvenience as to going goin out after hocking me pants and once I T saw sa a volunteer major general In the Philippines and thought I lund hud them but they both proved to be bc merely alcoholic And the time love JOc says I IThe IThe IThe The sin gin said Burke Anti Ang An from South Clark street and the time the Barbary coast const and Lyndhurst he led me a tale tall into the and nd md the time bottom lands It took many drinks drink Be Believe Believe Believe lieve them and they the lie Lie and they th believe belleve he said The lights went out I T had not noticed the hour The honorable private was very ery drunk rf i Ic k kIn In undressing him I found about his Ills neck neel a half sixpence Across cross it was as engraved Always Alva s And nd below belor almost obliterated Hearts of sold gold Never grow old Private Burke audibly |