#AmericanWriters
Children aren’t happy with nothing… And that’s what parents were creat…
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.
Bound to your bookseller, leap to… Deluge your dealer with bakshish a… Lean on the counter and never say… Wodehouse and Wooster are with us… Flourish the fish-slice, your butt…
The hands of the clock were reachi… In an old midtown hotel; I name no name, but its sordid fam… Is table talk in hell. I name no name, but hell’s own fla…
The summer like a rajah dies, And every widowed tree Kindles for Congregationalist eye… An alien suttee.
Affection is a noble quality; It leads to generosity and jollity… But it also leads to breach of pro… If you go around lavishing it on r…
As I was going to St. Ives I met a man with seven lives; Seven lives, In seven sacks, Like seven beeves
Enter, breath; Breath, slip out; Blood, be channeled, And wind about. O, blessed breath and blood which…
Candy is dandy But liquor is quicker
The people upstairs all practise b… Their living room is a bowling all… Their bedroom is full of conducted… Their radio is louder than yours, They celebrate week-ends all the w…
Consider the auk; Becoming extinct because he forgot… Consider man, who may well become… Because he forgot how to walk and…
Tell me, O Octopus, I begs Is those things arms, or is they l… I marvel at thee, Octopus; If I were thou, I’d call me Us.
From whence arrived the praying ma… From outer space, or lost Atlanti… glimpse the grin, green metal mug at masks the pseudo-saintly bug, Orthopterous, also carnivorous,
Now another day is breaking, Sleep was sweet and so is waking. Dear Lord, I promised you last ni… Never again to sulk or fight. Such vows are easier to keep