TELL ME MR JOHNSON:

"Why, Sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford."
— Samuel Johnson

 

Mr Samuel Johnson, essayist & poet of some great note,

You´ve coined a famous phrase & left us with that quote,

If a man does tire of London, then he tires of his very life,

Perhaps all men globally, are merely tired of living strife.

 

So please tell me Mr Johnson, if it is really so very true,

That when a man tires of London, he tires of living too?

Maybe it´s not just London Sir, but too, of other places,

Maybe, looking around him now, he sees no familiar faces.

 

So pray, tell me Mr Johnson, now I´ve got you on my own,

Would man weary too, if he tired of Paris, Madrid or Rome?

Maybe, Mr Johnson, man just wants to close his weary eyes,

Tired now of everything, of all the wherefores & the why´s?