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  • The Ant
    The ant has made herself illustrious
    By constant industry industrious.
    3 lines
  • Reflections On Ice Breaking
    Candy
    Is dandy
    4 lines, 1 comment
  • Requiem
    There was a young belle of Natchez
    Whose garments were always in patchez.
    5 lines, 2 comments
  • Columbus
    Once upon a time there was an Italian,
    And some people thought he was a rapscallion,
    26 lines
  • Winter Complaint
    Now when I have a cold
    I am careful with my cold,
    64 lines
  • The Camel
    The camel has a single hump;
    The dromedary , two;
    4 lines
  • The Duck
    Behold the duck.
    It does not cluck.
    8 lines
  • The Germ
    A mighty creature is the germ,
    Though smaller than the pachyderm.
    8 lines
  • The Termite
    Some primal termite knocked on wood
    And tasted it, and found it good!
    4 lines, 2 comments
  • Celery
    Celery, raw
    Develops the jaw,
    4 lines
  • The Praying Mantis
    From whence arrived the praying mantis?
    From outer space, or lost Atlantis?
    6 lines, 2 comments
  • The Ostrich
    The ostrich roams the great Sahara.
    Its mouth is wide, its neck is narra.
    4 lines
  • The Rhinoceros
    The rhino is a homely beast,
    For human eyes he's not a feast.
    4 lines
  • The Turtle
    The turtle lives 'twixt plated decks
    Which practically conceal its sex.
    3 lines, 1 comment
  • The Cuckoo
    Cuckoos lead Bohemian lives,
    They fail as husbands and as wives,
    4 lines, 1 comment
  • Common Cold
    Go hang yourself, you old M.D.!
    You shall not sneer at me.
    40 lines
  • PG Wooster, Just as he Useter
    Bound to your bookseller, leap to your library,
    Deluge your dealer with bakshish and bribary,
    24 lines, 1 comment
  • Portrait of the Artist as a Prematurely Old Man
    It is common knowledge to every schoolboy and even every Bachelor of Arts,
    That all sin is divided into two parts.
    35 lines
  • Song of the Open Road
    I think that I shall never see
    A billboard lovely as a tree
    4 lines, 1 comment
  • The People Upstairs
    The people upstairs all practise ballet
    Their living room is a bowling alley
    12 lines, 1 comment
  • Goody for Our Side and Your Side Too
    Foreigners are people somewhere else,
    Natives are people at home;
    48 lines, 1 comment
  • A Lady Who Thinks She Is Thirty
    Unwillingly Miranda wakes,
    Feels the sun with terror,
    24 lines, 3 comments
  • Listen...
    There is a knocking in the skull,
    An endless silent shout
    24 lines
  • Old Men
    People expect old men to die,
    They do not really mourn old men.
    6 lines, 1 comment
  • One From One Leaves Two
    Higgledy piggledy, my black hen,
    She lays eggs for gentlemen.
    34 lines
  • Pretty Halcyon Days
    How pleasant to sit on the beach,
    On the beach, on the sand, in the sun,
    40 lines
  • The Solitary Huntsman
    The solitary huntsman
    No coat of pink doth wear,
    27 lines
  • Tableau at Twilight
    I sit in the dusk. I am all alone.
    Enter a child and an ice-cream cone.
    16 lines
  • A Word to Husbands
    To keep your marriage brimming
    With love in the loving cup,
    4 lines, 4 comments
  • Soliloquy in Circles
    Being a father
    Is quite a bother.
    34 lines
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