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Apologia
University of Chicago Daily Maroon, 6 Oct 1928
By The Blind Tiger


Oh listen my children and you shall hear 
Why the Tiger so blind is a blind tigeer! 
(The rhyme is evident 'n also hot  
Don't look for mistakes when they is not) 
The meter is bad and the Rhet is worse 
F'r all of that it's a damned fine verse. 
        (we continue unharmed) 
'Twas back in the winter of 22 
Th' Tiger wuz tired and the Tiger wuz blue 
Tired of furbishing every day 
The same old stripes in th' same old way 
But he met a lady whose name wuz Pearl 
A jade eyed jewel with her tail in a curl... 
He sidles up and sez "Lessen Kid! 
Wuz you auctioned off, y'know what I'd bid? 
Juniper and oranges every day 
N' a nice dry cave furnished mail order way!" 
She sez -- "Fella! Didja mention a wedding ring?" 
"Nossir!" sez he, "Never heard of the thing." 
The Pearl leans back n' she gives a cry

'N she socks a claw in the Tiger's eye!  

MORAL
"Wear eye-shields.....!"

         The Blind Tiger







Historical Notes


Private Van Deusen was assigned to the cavalry of the University of Chicago, to teach ROTC. On October 6, 1928, he responded to a call for volunteers for the U of C newspaper, the Daily Maroon, with his own call for writers for a new column, which he called 'The Whistle' and which he ran under the pseudonym of The Blind Tiger.

'Apologia' was one of two poems he published in this first column.





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