ON BEING GIVEN A NEW CALENDAR
NOW that the glossy calendar is printed , All that remains is for it to come true With days made just to order nicely tinted As this mountain in the photographic view. No one has doubted enough to léave a Bap That the holidays will fall in proper places Nor that thé thovable feasts will fail to stop At the right time and spend it at the races, Nobody has allowed tor Armageddon Though there are those who. claim it’s on the wayOr calamity with a comet eficouritered héad-on Which would explode our theorem any day. I tutn these leaves and guess at the disaster Which may await me round some darkened corner; Friday thé thirteenth crows like a black rooster doom upon the helpless dreamer. Even allowing that the worst will tiot Eventuate-the world and I surviveI look with trepidation on days not yet Safely accomplished in the ways I serve. Meals yet uneaten, rent and debts to earn, Timé must be purchased, life doled in advarice; Orie is the slave of the hand of thé slave who turns The press that prints this writ of circumstance. And on the wrist the Swiss-made hours tick off Smail sperdthrift reasons that should make us think Twice before the luxury of a laugh
Crosses our lips-and drown it with a drink,
Louis
Johnson
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 951, 1 November 1957, Page 24
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227ON BEING GIVEN A NEW CALENDAR New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 951, 1 November 1957, Page 24
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