Explore "To Alice -- Sit -- by -- the -- Hour (being the Second Idyl to an Idle Idol.)" by Franklin P. Adams on Textopian.
Lady in the blue kimono, / May we write of you again? / Do not hand us out a "No! no! " / Do not dam the flowing pen. / Once again a poem at you / Crave we leave of you to write -- / Lady idle as a statue, / Lady silent as the night!
Lady in the blue kimono, / Heavy is our heart and dumb, / Though we weep no tear nor show no / Sign of sadness, we are glum; / For that wrapper, silk or cotton, / You eternally had on -- / It is gone, but not forgotten. / Still the fact is, it is gone.
Lady in the blue kimono, / Although deadly hot the day, / Don't you think -- (alas! we know no / Way to put what we would say! )
Er -- although your smile is pleasant, / Wondrous fair, and all that stuff -- / Do you really think, at present, / It is -- er -- ahem -- enough?