Ready for the Ha Ha & Other Satires

Jane Mayhall

1966

Oh dog, oh doggy mind! the cosmic hordes are rising,
oh cur, self-righteous seer of an age.
Let speech be passed away, and whines our only song,
beyond, oh blazing panels of the atom.
Oh cult of ignorance, be borne of what we know;
ironic as the dawn of Judgement Day.
–from Period Piece, a play by Jane Mayhall

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