The things they don’t show in their seed catalogs
Will grow better and faster than seeds;
I refer, don’t you know, to the chickens and dogs,
To the insects, diseases, and weeds!
Now, gardening’s something I’d go for–yes ma’m.
It’s a hobby I ‘d cherish and love,
Were it not for the self-same unspeakably dam ‘ —
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*(Please refer to the verse just above)
by Ray Romine Sunday, July 8, 1945
