Civilization
The Battle of Waterloo was won
on the playing fields of Eton.
--Wellington
On the playing fields of Eton
I assumed my fair turn in
New Haven Yalie bells held us
as in a vise,
through mine fields since
missing the notices
haphazardly posted a-
mong the swells
of cricketeers and footballers,
the rise of dust in dusk, cool-edged.
There’s a good chap when
you miss
your middle-class leg.
I assumed my fair turn in
New Haven Yalie bells held us
as in a vise,
through mine fields since
missing the notices
haphazardly posted a-
mong the swells
of cricketeers and footballers,
the rise of dust in dusk, cool-edged.
There’s a good chap when
you miss
your middle-class leg.