AN IMPROMPTU ON ROLLER SKATES

Rumble, tumble, growl, and grate!

Skip, and trip, and gravitate!

Lunge, and plunge, and thrash the planks

With your blameless, shameless shanks:

In excruciating pain,

Stand upon your head again,

And, uncoiling kink by kink,

Kick the roof out of the rink!

In derisive bursts of mirth,

Drop ka-whop and jar the earth!

Jolt your lungs down in your socks,

Oh! tempestuous equinox

Of dismembered legs and arms!

Strew your ways with wild alarms;

Fameward skoot and ricochet

On your glittering vertebrae!