#Americans #XXCentury
The rhino is a homely beast, For human eyes he’s not a feast. Farwell, farewell, you old rhinoce… I’ll stare at something less prepo…
I find it very hard to be fair-min… About people who go around being a… I just can’t see any fun In soaring up up up into the sun When the chances are still a fresh…
Bring down the moon for genteel J… She’s too refined for this gross p… She wears garments and you wear cl… You buy stockings, she purchases h… She say That is correct, and you…
Whales have calves, Cats have kittens, Bears have cubs, Bats have bittens, Swans have cygnets,
The doctor gets you when you’re bo… The preacher, when you marry, And the lawyer lurks with costly c… If too much on you carry. Professional men, they have no car…
Hypochondriacs Spend the winter at the bottom of… the Adirondriacs. You go to Paris and live on champ… If you’re dipsomognac.
The summer like a rajah dies, And every widowed tree Kindles for Congregationalist eye… An alien suttee.
Adam Had’em
Celery, raw Develops the jaw, But celery, stewed, Is more quietly chewed.
The camel has a single hump; The dromedary, two; Or else the other way around. I’m never sure. Are you?
Enter, breath; Breath, slip out; Blood, be channeled, And wind about. O, blessed breath and blood which…
A girl whose cheeks are covered wi… Has an advantage with me over one…
Who wants my jellyfish? I’m not sellyfish!
Sure, deck your limbs in pants; Yours are the limbs, my sweeting. You look divine as you advance— Have you seen yourself retreating?
Cuckoos lead Bohemian lives, They fail as husbands and as wives… Therefore they cynically disparage Everybody else’s marriage.