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The Pleasure Is Mutual

When her boy crawls upon my clothes,
Or kicks me in the shins,
Or beats his drum, or yells “How Come?”
At all my double chins,
His mother never fails to ask,
“He isn’t any bother?”
For Junior’s sake (still–it’s my break!)
I’m glad I’m not his father.

by Ray Romine Tuesday, October 15, 1946

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