To Sketch a Scant Vignette

To Sketch a Scant Vignette

At leisure hours in
[bogus verse] he deals,
Writes to the rumbling
of his coach's wheels.

                              ---Dryden

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Alas! avast! oh, dear!
To my embarrassment

And my immense regret---
To sketch right here

A scant vignette---
I've come a sometimes

Friday matineer.

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I comment:

To choose embarrassment
is a particularly useless act;
to attend the cinema's not
so really terribly awfully
very much. Of a useless act,
I mean.

Or is it?

                             ---barbsdad

(Friday matineer = one who
frequents matinees on Fridays)