My Nose Is In A Book

by

Hardy Parkerson

I'm at Tulane and I'm hungry;
My clothes are such a sight;
But I'm so glad to be here;
I'm trying to do it right.

"Are you running with me, Jesus?"
Am I running from the war?
Many of my friends are dying, asking,
"What are we fighting for?'

That old sail-boat on Campus:
What's it doing there?
It's waited for me fifty years
And now I'm here.

I dined with Eddie Price tonight
Near Newcomb on Broadway;
Saw Max McGee at the Sugar Bowl;
Tom Mason's gone they say.

And Al Burguieres is here,
Leading the pack,
Getting knocked on its back
By the Crimson Tide and Horns.

I'm getting my degree

And no one looks at me;

But I won't see, if they should look,

My nose is in a book.

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