3rd Day of Wisdom :: The French are Clever, but not Clever Enough

"On the third day of Wisdom, my true love gave to me, Three non-French-made farm-tool implements.... "

... Thas' Right ::: BUY AMERICAN ...

Buy three non-French-made, farm implements :: Buy AMerican

All of you get up to go
down STATE STreet at night
because i'm told
you won't have to fight
to see what's there for you
 ... in store windows
windows dressed out
 ... for your delights 'n so 'n so

you see, at Marshal Field's
what your visits yield is
what your and my Christmases
... is

Look at people whisking by...
whipping wind that tears your eyes ...
... dry wind, how it makes you cry
Your tear of new wine

a tear that strolls your contour
and makes a path down your face
not to pine, but for others later to follow
all at their own pace tomorrow and morrow

and you might flinch
as wisdom sweeps o'er
you in wisdom's clench
your soul catches gusts to soar

your farm year-end purchases
never buy French, just as it were
too much of a chance it is --
buy American  -- never French,
American-made, farm-tool implements

...and if you can't sing
...and you don't dance
you'll soon be leaving
to join the frogs and occupy  France...

and if it's all the same to you
I don't mind if you do
I don't have any Euro's
to come and liberate you.  fin


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