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Indirect Approach

Her teacher told my little girl,
“Go home and wash your ears!”
Exhibiting a singular
Lack of tact, one fears.
This teacher doesn’t know her kids,
Nor how, indeed, to win ’em,
Or she’d have said, “My dear, your ears–
We’ll plant petunias in ’em!”

by Ray Romine Tuesday, August 7, 1951

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