Good Neighbors (but Queer)

Calypso-like musings of Edith Efron, U.S.-born wife of a Port au Prince businessman, as reported in the Haiti Sun:

Anthropology

Americans are infinitely queer Say the Haitians, with a jeer. They think in terms

of mechanical devices, They dislike spices. Their wives Run their lives;

And they consider that being flirty Is, somehow, dirty. Vice

Does not entice The Cranky Yankee, Who considers license a good thing

only so far As it applies to a car.

Haitians are infinitely queer Say the Americans, with a jeer. They eat their salad before their meat And refuse the salty in favor of the

sweet.

Most irritating is the patience Of the Haitians, Who are always late For a date

And who don't know That being philosophically slow May be sublime, But is a horrid loss of time. Haitian habits of driving and jaywalking make Americans leery, Because Haitians are always trying to

disprove the ('two-bodies-cannot-occupy-the-same-space-at-the-same-time" theory. And of course the Haitian institution of

which Americans beware Is the garconniere.*

Personally, I jeer

At both Haitians and Americans, who are infinitely queer . . .

*A bungalow for quick dalliance.

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