Robert Schechter
THE CHORUS OF DORIS
If Morris’s chorus is better than Boris’s,
Boris’s chorus can outsing Dolores’s,
Dolores’s chorus is better than Horace’s,
and Horace’s chorus is better than Doris’s,
can Doris’s chorus be better than Morris’s?
The answer, of course, is the chorus of Doris
has got to be worse than the chorus of Morris
because it’s no match for the chorus of Horace,
which can’t be compared to Dolores’s chorus,
which isn’t quite up to the chorus of Boris,
which can’t sing as well as the chorus of Morris.
But sources assure us that Doris’s chorus is
not one to bore us, regardless of Morris’s.
Though you would enjoy a performance by Horace’s,
Morris’s, Boris’s, even Dolores’s,
you’d also endorse a performance by Doris’s,
provided, of course, you enjoy hearing choruses.