Why do the wrong people travel
Why do the wrong people travel Elaine Stritch At Liberty (2003) Travel they say improves the mind, An irritating platitude, which frankly, entrenous, Is very far from true. Personally I ve yet to find that longtitude and latitude can educate those scores of monumental bores Who travel in groups and herds and troupes Of varying breeds and sexes Till the whole world to shouts and And the clicking of Roliflexes. Why do the wrong people travel, travel, travel When the right people stay back home What compulsion compels them and who the hell tells them To drag their cans to Zanzibar, instead of staying quietly in Omaha. The Taj Mahal and the Grand Canal And the sunny French Rivera Would be less oppressed if the Middle West Would settle for somewhere rather nearer. Please do not think that I criticize or cavel at a genuine urge to roam. But why, oh why, do the wrong people travel when the right people stay back home And mind their business when the right people sta
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