Should heaven send me any son <br />I hope he’s not like Tennyson. <br />I’d rather have him play the fiddle <br />than rise and bow and speak an idyll. <br /> <br />All words by Dorothy the Parker <br />inspire me, but mine are darker. <br /> <br />For Siegfried clearly any idyll <br />is spoiled by presence of a Yidel, <br />for Wagner must play tennis on <br />the Sabbath and hunt venison. <br /> <br />The first four lines are Dorothy’s. The rest are not. <br /> <br />4/25/06<br /><br />gershon hepner<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/idyllically-not-dorothy/
