"Cramped like sardines on the Queens, and sedated, The sittings all first, the roommates mismated, Veering through rapids in a vapid rapido To view the new moon from a ruin on the Lido, Or a sundown in London from a rundown Mercedes Then high-borne to Glyndebourne for Orféo in Hades, Embarrassed in Paris in Harris tweed, trying to Get to the next museum piece that they're flying to, Finding, in Frankfurt, that one indigestible Comestible makes them too ill for the festival, Humdrum conundrums, what's to become of them? Most will come home, but there will be some of them Subsiding like Lawrence in Florence, or crazily Ending up tending up shop in Fiesole."
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Howard Moss, Tourists, quoted in: The Fireside Book of Humorous Poetry, Hamish Hamilton, 1965, p. 212
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