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Prayer To Toymakers

I thank you, manufacturers,
(So should the dogs and sparrows)
For your putting rubber suction cups
Upon the ends of arrows.

But too, most fathers in the morgue
Could be out on the fairways
If you could make your roller-skates
Remove themselves from stairways.

by Ray Romine Friday, September 20, 1946

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Submissions / Sales

Media name: Liberty

Date Submitted: 09/23/1946


Media name: Better Homes & Gardens

Date Submitted: 04/28/1950

Date Sold: 05/16/1950

Amount: 10.00