Across the waves I kiss you!
You think I am a stone, a clam;
You think that I don’t give a damn,
But God! how I will miss you!
My heart goes with you as you sail.
God grant you won’t be seasick!
The thought of you abaft the rail,
Diffusing meat and ginger ale,
Makes both my wife and me sick.
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(1924)
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Footnotes
Ring Lardner was Scott Fitzgerald's life long
drinking buddy and in no way was their relationship
hindered by this poem
Scott wrote an elegy entitled RING
when Lardner died in 1933
Ellis Lardner was Ring's wife
and she approved of her husband's
fascination with Zelda Fitzgerald
The steamer trunks pictured here
are from the Fitzgerald's return from Paris
The next GoFather/Fitzgerald page is here
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