Admonition to a Lover (1)


Why so dilatory, lover?
Prythee, why delay?
All your groping did not move her,
No cause for a stay.
Prythee, why delay?

Carroll told you, “No deal,” mister,
When you copped a feel.
Courts agreed, you groped a sister,
‘Twas your last appeal,
(That unwanted feel.)

Your slime’s been adjudicated.
And been judged a crime.
Your course is not complicated.
Pay her every dime.
It’s about damn time!

(1) With apologies to Sir John Suckling, 1609-1642, who wrote, “Why so pale
and wan, fond lover? Prythee, why so pale?….”
(2) July 8, 2026, Federal Judge Lewis Kaplan ordered the court clerk to pay
Carroll the money Trump had put in escrow.