Love Poem Hand Delivered To Zelda But Not From Her Husband

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Zelda, fair queen of Alabam’
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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RING LARDNER 

(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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