Springtime?
Q: Nabokov?
"...Fair Tigress of the Tennis Court
So short in sleeve and strong in shorts,
Little, alas, to you I mean,
For I am bald and old and green..."
A: Uhh..No.. its the gent from the country
a country boy, in fact.
John Betjeman from
John Betjeman's collected poems
Awarded the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize
1958.
Otherwise translated as
"She's some nice lookin..."
Q: "Right?"
"I mean, I wouldn't kick her outtta bed fer eating crackers."
Q: "Right?"
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