kangaroo figure, the burden is slightly shifted and naught is amiss. Ah, such haunches as are here exhibited suggest the aliats of our Asiatic sheep.”
And what he says about the pruriently titillating convexities, whether frontward or hindward, suggests a little prudery.
For in his rhymes he betrays both his comrade and himself. Battery Park and the attractions thereof prove fatal. Elsewhere, therefore, they must go, and begin to draw on their bank accounts. Which does not mean, however, that they are far from the snare.
No; for when a young man begins to suffer from what the doctors call hebephrenia, the farther he draws away from such snares the nearer he gets to them. And these lusty Syrians could not repel the magnetic attraction of the polypiosis of what Shakib likens to the aliat (fattail) of our Asiatic sheep. Surely, there be more devils under such an aliat than under the hat of a Jesuit. And Khalid is the first to discover this. Both have been ensnared, however, and both, when in the snare, have been infernally inspired.
What Khalid wrote, when he was under the influence of feminine curves, was preserved by Shakib, who remarks that one evening, after returning from the Park, Khalid said to him, “I am going to write a poem.” A fortnight later, he hands him the following, which he jealously kept among his papers.
I dreamt I was a donkey-boy again. Out on the sun-swept roads of Baalbek, I tramp behind my burro, trolling my mulayiah . At noon, I pass by a garden redolent of mystic scents and tarry awhile. Under an orange tree, on the soft green grass, I stretch my limbs. The daisies, the anemones, and the cyclamens are round me pressing: