Category: Observations

In spite of all our efforts,
Junior can’t see why
A department-store detective
Is not a counter-spy.

by Ray Romine Friday, November 30, 1951

Heated, worried people
Trying to forget
Mankind, as a product
Isn’t finished yet.

They kill their time and money,
Boredom underscored;
I observe their foibles
So I won’t be bored!

by Ray Romine Monday, July 12, 1948

The fame of him will never taper
Who owns two rolls of toilet paperl

by Ray Romine Wednesday, October 15, 1947

Point with pride, and boast your fill
Of everything you do;
It may be I, by keeping still,
Can learn some things from you.

by Ray Romine Tuesday, March 27, 1951

I thought I’d surely recognize
The truth when I should hear it.
I didn’t. Because, I surmise,
I am so seldom near it.
Unfamiliarity
Thus breeds its own contempt for me …

by Ray Romine Wednesday, August 8, 1951

This instinct thing is marvelous,
Though overdone, I must confess;
Too bad we substitute it for
Intelligence we don’t possess….

by Ray Romine Monday, September 8, 1947

George, it seems, just couldn’t lie-
Neither, says my wife, can I.
My technique is not perfected;
I am never undetected.

by Ray Romine Sunday, June 18, 1950

“Know what I think?” he said, which brought
Me to a mental skid;
For, far from knowing what he thought,
I didn’t know he did!

by Ray Romine Sunday, October 28, 1945

“Just a stone’s throw from the station”.
As I count the miles, I groan.
How I’d view with consternation
That huge chap who tossed the stone!

{alternate}
Barnum could have milked the nation
With the lad who tossed that stone!

by Ray Romine Tuesday, May 1, 1945

Be careful when you step, my dear;
Be careful how you drive;
You’re worth two thousand dead, my dear,
But I want you alive.

So easy with that ladder, dear;
And easy with that Jive:
Although you’d make a pretty corpse,
You’re prettier alive!

by Ray Romine Thursday, October 17, 1946