Biological Reflection

A girl whose cheeks are covered with paint
Has an advantage with me over one whose ain't.

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Grandpa Is Ashamed

A child need not be very clever
To learn that "Later, dear" means "Never."

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The Squab

Toward a better world I contribute my modest smidgin;
I eat the squab, lest it become a pigeon.

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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

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Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.

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Kipling's Vermont

The summer like a rajah dies,
And every widowed tree
Kindles for Congregationalist eyes
An alien suttee.

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The Perfect Husband

He tells you when you've got on
too much lipstick
And helps you with your girdle
when your hips stick.

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Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.

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The Camel

The camel has a single hump;
The dromedary , two;
Or else the other way around.
I'm never sure. Are you?

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Family Court

One would be in less danger
From the wiles of a stranger
If one's own kin and kith
Were more fun to be with.

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