Category: Marriage

Marriage

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Wanted: One Inventor

All aboard, for now we’re going;
Put that suitcase in the rear.
Everyone’s serene but mother–
And I know that look, I fear.
Slam the door and start the engine;
Thence away? But then, alas,
Mother yells to wait a minute:
Who turned off the cook-stove gas?

When the kids are tucked in safely
And I’m settled with a book,
Mother snores, and starts, and wakes up:
“Was the gas out? Go and look.”
If the girls are ever perfect,
They will have their hats to doff
To the chap who turns their ranges
Automatically off!

by Ray Romine Monday, September 17, 1945

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Two Chumps

I know a young couple who married last year,
And thought they were married to stay.
They might have been, too, but for one little thing–
They BOTH couldn’t have their own way.

For he liked a book and a chair near the fire;
She wanted to go every night.
A poor combination that always will end
Just like this one did–in a fight.

So now they’re divorced and as free as the wind.
She goes every night, so they say,
And he sits at home in a chair with a book–
THEY BOTH NOW ARE HAVING THEIR WAY!

by Ray Romine Tuesday, February 20, 1934