That marriage should be an open book
There’s very little doubt of;
But a husband’s apt to find, the schnook,
It’s the kind he takes checks out of.
by Ray Romine Saturday, February 14, 1953
Author: Ray Romine
Check-mate
A checking account, if it is joint,
Allows a wife to make this point:
While not the master’s equal, she
Is quicker on the draw than he!
by Ray Romine Friday, April 10, 1953
Chat-Nap
His opening words were full of ring;
I very much admired his closing- –
But if he said anything
It must have been when I was dozing.
by Ray Romine Tuesday, May 2, 1950
Chase Pace
That life is too swift can’t be denied.
If I could ever master
The gentle art, I vow that I’d
Slow up a little faster.
by Ray Romine Tuesday, June 16, 1953
Charming Charlie
A fellow I know christened “Elicker”
Is a heartless sort of a felicker:
For he cutteth capers
With armfuls of papers,
And he will, until he’s a relic-er!
by Ray Romine Saturday, February 19, 1944
Charmed, I’m Not So Sure
If you must call me Cap or Doc,
Watch out tor social dangers;
The fact you ooze with Chums and Buds
Will keep us total strangers,
by Ray Romine Saturday, March 19, 1949
Charity’s Big Inning’s Right Here
The money from these verses,
As George S. Kaufman said,
Goes to a needy family
Of which I am the head!
by Ray Romine Wednesday, July 9, 1952
Charge the Secretary with Understatement
Like the invitation
Said, “A snack”-
If one had stopped
Three courses back.
by Ray Romine Monday, May 15, 1950
Chaosarchy?
A politico out of Mo.
Set up, amid fanfare and flo. ,
(Well, I’m not sure at all;
Just what would you call
A State of considerable wo.?)
by Ray Romine Friday, June 23, 1950
Changes
I change the TV program,
If it is alright with mother;
And I often change from playing
With one plaything to another.
On some days the weather changes;
Ssometimes cattle change their range;
The movie changes pictures,
And the paper-boy makes”change”.
I change to my pajamas
When I go to bed at night;
But what changes really often
Is the corner traffic light!
by Ray Romine Monday, January 12, 1953