Poetry Explorer


Classic and Contemporary Poetry


THE WRONG HOUSE by FAIRFAX DOWNEY

First Line: I WENT INTO A HOUSE, I DON'T KNOW WHOSE HOUSE
Last Line: NOBODY WANTED IT AT ALL.
Subject(s): HOME; PARTIES;

I went into a house, I don't know whose house.
Some one was throwing a debutante ball.
But I didn't have an @3in@1vite,
An @3in@1vite,
An @3in@1vite.
But that didn't bother me at all.

I went into a house, I don't know whose house.
I parked my wrap in the entrance hall.
I didn't know the hostess,
The hostess,
The hostess.
But that didn't bother me at all.

I went into a house, I don't know whose house.
The party was due for a big, flat fall.
They didn't have a punchbowl,
A punchbowl,
A punchbowl.
It wasn't a bang-up party at all.

I went into a house, some dodo's house.
I heard from the ballroom the saxophone's call.
And there was a punchbowl, but
Nobody'd
Spiked it.
Nobody wanted it at all.



Home: PoetryExplorer.net