O Why Do You Walk (a Parody)

Portrait of A.E. Housman
A.E. Housman 1859–1936

O why do you walk through the fields in boots, Missing so much and so much? O fat white woman whom nobody shoots, Why do you walk through the fields in boots, When the grass is soft as the breast of coots And shivering-sweet to the touch?

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