Chicago May

CHICAGO MAY She went to a Levantine Jew. Her bright piastres hire His sordid service; to her stew Behold the wretch retire! A monster, after four or five Months, came ; aborted, but alive. ‘The eunuch of a childless Turk ‘Was bribed by the head wife— Oh, substituted wage for work I— To buy a baby life. ‘The best the mean slave could procure ‘Was this—thrown out on some manure. He took it to the harem, told The tale; it wheezed the sot Whose palsied eyes with rapture rolled At hearing he had got In his old age (his youth was wild ) A real live beautiful male child. ‘This blinking bastard lived to be A thief, a renegade, ‘To cheat at cards, to fight and flee A volunteer brigade Of Greeks, Armenians, and Jews With all to loot, and naught to lose. He failed to ogle men, but learnt ‘The art of bilking whores :— ‘The Turks, who should have had him burnt, But threw him out of doors. 19