Halley's comet, thank heavens, failed
to do. And our watchful Congress
finds it illegal if not incongruous
to take ladies across state lines
for purposes it declines
to spell out, while Japan moves nearer
to Korea: a face that invades a mirror.
The man of the year is an architect.
His name is Frank Lloyd Wright.
Things that he's built still stand erect,
nay! hug what they stand on tight .
(Frank Lloyd Wright)
"Nature and space have no walls or doors,
and roaming at will is what man adores .
So , a builder of houses , I decide
to bring the outside inside.
You don't build them tall: you build them flat .
That's what Nature is so good at.
You go easy on bricks and big on glass
so that space may sashay your parquet like grass."
1911 is wholly given
to looking balanced albeit uneven .
In Hamburg, stirring his nation's helm
the German Kaiser (for you, Wilhelm
the Second) demands what sounds weird for some :
"A Place for Germany in the Sun ."
If
you were French, you would say
C'est tout.
Yet Hitler is barely twenty-two
and things in the sun aren't so hot besides.
The activity of the sun excites
the Chinese to abolish pigtails and then
proclaim a republic with Sun Vat-Sen
their first President. (Although how three hundred
twenty-five millions can be handled
by a Parliament , frankly, beats
me . That is , how many seats
would they have had in that great pavilion?
