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I’ll Have Mine Straight

Of all the people I dislike,
He is most pestilential
Who bides his time, that he may strike
With insult inferential.

For I can answer sneers from lips
That move in guileless shuttle;
But Heaven spare me from those quips
That classify as subtle.

by Ray Romine Thursday, September 6, 1945

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Submissions / Sales

Media name: Argosy

Date Submitted: 05/03/1950

Media name: American Legion

Date Submitted: 05/12/1950

Media name: New York Times Magazine

Date Submitted: 05/28/1950

Media name: New York Journal American

Date Submitted: 06/11/1950

Date Sold: 06/15/1950

Amount: 2.00