La Belle Dame

They gossip about a girl’s ecstasies they caused, over brandies, that fine ladies choose not to allow, for it amounts to surrender to his beliefs about his God-given self. Acting is little known to him. Country girls and always from other towns know better when they soon enough go knees andtoes circling on stage and leaving the crowds on an arm for what’s left of the evening. Their manhood lives in our pleasure, so why not sell it to them. Nothing’s free. What else have we got to sell? The na ve among us are the most to be pitied. The best may get a better place in town.