Invoking the Muses

[underthewillows]

Answer songs aren't just confined to rock and roll (or blues, RnB and hip-hop); there were (are?) answer poems as well -

To a Fat Lady Seen From the Train
– Frances Cornwell (1886-1960); originally published in 1915

O why do you walk through the fields in gloves,
Missing so much and so much?
O fat white woman whom nobody loves,
Why do you walk through the fields in gloves,
When the grass is soft as the breast of doves
And shivering sweet to the touch?
O why do you walk through the fields in gloves,
Missing so much and so much?

 

The Fat White Woman Speaks
- G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936); originally published in 1933

Why do you rush through the field in trains,
Guessing so much and so much?
Why do you flash through the flowery meads,
Fat-head poet that nobody reads;
And why do you know such a frightful lot
About people in gloves as such?
And how the devil can you be sure,
Guessing so much and so much,
How do you know but what someone who loves
Always to see me in nice white gloves
At the end of the field you are rushing by,
Is waiting for his Old Dutch?