New York - October 24, 2002

Washed Up? Heavens No

"Eloise Takes a Bawth"

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Oooooo to be six forever and ever
never knowing the misery of term papers
and early field-hockey practices and
mortgage payments with A.P.R. financing
whatever that means for Lord’s sake

Eloise
that loony imp who lives at the Plaza
torturing both her nanny
who come to think of it might deserve it
and the sweet room-service fellows
who absolutely and certainly do not
is back again

Eloise Takes a Bawth
has just been published
forty years after it was originally conceived
in a bathtub in Rome of all places

What in heavens took so long?
Well you simply cannot imagine the complications
that go with being a temperamental author
like Kay Thompson (“Who? Me? Eloise?”)

Fortunately Thompson had family and friends
who have rescued the tale
which might otherwise
have been lost at sea to mermaids and
pirates in a forest of seaweed

How has Eloise weathered the years?
How silly silly silly of you to ask
because of course
she is in frightfully good form
which is probably more than we can say for Nanny

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