paris, ach,
no gulls or oatcakes.
pipe-smoke, though, a writing desk,
and stevenson's elusive ' I ' -
I'm orchestrating flapping sails
and youthful sky.
in walks yer man -
troon tweeds,
a pantomime eye-patch,
'murray of atholl' tie -
commodious talk. he's gas.
the funster o' finnegan; aye.
fancied links
o'er foam the brim;
gently peloothered,
whenceness undimmed.
