For Tourist Woman The itching is turning to fever And then to form For Tourist Woman Insecurities are bunk-pollen for the swarm And vice-versa The swarm, turning to fury Captures a prisoner Tourist Woman is unhappy With the meager conditions They have given her From Oxford to UCLA To empoverished streets Of a Bengali village T.W. fights for nothing Believes in nothing Except an image The image in her mind Is of vague origin Of, mostly, western result Somewhat pyramid, somewhat cross Somewhat a mongrel cult Like the old man Who slept his life away Romantics are doomed (and that's a good thing)