#AmericanWriters
Senescence begins And middle age ends The day your descendents Outnumber your friends.
The summer like a rajah dies, And every widowed tree Kindles for Congregationalist eye… An alien suttee.
For years we’ve had a little dog, Last year we acquired a big dog; He wasn’t big when we got him, He was littler than the dog we had… We thought our little dog would lo…
Behold the duck. It does not cluck. A cluck it lacks. It quacks. It is specially fond
“Beep-beep. BANKERS TRUST AUTOMOB… You’ll find a banker at Bankers T… Advertisement in N.Y. Times When comes my second childhood,
Your hopeless patients will live, Your healthy patients will die. I have only this word to give: Wonder, and find out why
When I remember bygone days I think how evening follows morn; So many I loved were not yet dead… So many I love were not yet born.
I objurgate the centipede, A bug we do not really need. At sleepy-time he beats a path Straight to the bedroom or the bat… You always wallop where he’s not,
The song of canaries Never varies, And when they’re moulting They’re pretty revolting.
Go hang yourself, you old M.D.! You shall not sneer at me. Pick up your hat and stethoscope, Go wash your mouth with laundry so… I contemplate a joy exquisite
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’ve never seen an abominable snow… I’m hoping not to see one, I’m also hoping, if I do, That it will be a wee one.
Belinda lived in a little white ho… With a little black kitten and a l… And a little yellow dog and a litt… And a realio, trulio, little pet d… Now the name of the little black k…
Candy is dandy But liquor is quicker
A flea and a fly in a flue Were imprisoned, so what could the… Said the fly, “let us flee!” “Let us fly!” said the flea. So they flew through a flaw in the…