THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT.

                           THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT.

Thomas Stearns Eliot, TS to you and me,

played games of patience all the time,

in a flat he shared in Chelsea,

when not working on a rhyme.

Why play became the question,

and this is what he said.

The reason for my obsession,

it’s the nearest thing to being dead.