Prepared Rejoinder for a Gallery Opening: For J. And M. Berger

Get your eyes out of your inside overcoat pocket, Dad;
nobody’s going to part you from your plugged nickel:
A picture is worth the thousand natural shocks or nothing
and you won’t get beans for the world corner on those.
Man I see what you’ve got to lose but you won’t lose it here.
You’re a real cool customer, Mister, or didn’t you know?
But I am no fit guardian for the time of day; keep it, keep it;
I only came here to look at a couple of things myself.