Category: Babies

June sixth, Cathryn Edna, you opened cute eyes
To see Harold and Ethel watch YOU with surprise!
They expected. a darling, like you, true–and yet
It was some disconcerting: they’d got ’em a set!

Your dad looked at mother, and thoughtfully cooed:
“Twice as much Yak-ing*, and twice as much food!”
He was kidding, of course, but you’ll show the old son:
Twins’re twice as much trouble–and twice as much fun!

*You get this naturally! Ask mother about the time she talked to me for an hour-and-a-half on the ‘phone!

by Ray Romine Monday, May 12, 1952

Tell us, Carole Helen, as your life begins,
How does it feel, being one-half of twins?

But I suppose that it doesn’t much matter to you
If you’re one entire White child or one-half of two!

But why all this smirking? Pray tell what’s so cute–
Is it I, or your bottle, or that birthday suit?

Don’t kid me, you’re proud, as you gulp milk with suction,
For you helped turn a routine into Some Production!

by Ray Romine Monday, May 12, 1952