Dick and Jane take Betty for their friend:
introduce themselves and spend a year
acquainting each with other, and intend
to get the truth of her and be her peer.
Betty is a person self-contained
and balanced in her own eccentric way,
but Dick and Jane think she can be explained
in terms of their fixations of the day.
So Dick thinks Betty’s selfish when she’s strong
and Jane finds Betty giving to extreme.
It matters neither when nor for how long
they visit her, for she will ever seem
to each of them a similarity,
and both are blind to her reality.