HIGH ART AND LOW MORALS

Fifty Hans Holbein heads

From the Queen's collection:

Wyatt and Surrey so real

You could ask them about

The sonnet (a trick in the eyes

He learned in Art School at

Basel), Basel where he left

Wife and babes to starve

When he sailed off to London

To paint King and courtiers;

Rich, he returned once to

Immortalize their destitution

In a heart-rending oil

(and left them nothing in his will).

John Rison Jones, Jr.,

From Huntsville, Alabama,

My classmate, liberated Dachau

And shattered all his Gieseking

78s when he heard that great

Interpreter of Schubert was a

Nazi.

Older now and I still remember

I am a pledge to SAE, in a canoe

With a brother and his fiancee;

Neither can swim. The canoe tips

Over. Which one shall I save?

We all drown together.