We Dodged Two Yesterday

The starving pole cat leaned against the post without a cent.

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“I’ll stick to you whate’er betide,

Though all the world may scoff.”

Thus spoke the heavy flannel shirt,

But the man said, “Aw, come off!”

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He led her to the altar, ’twas merely tit for tat;

He led her to the altar, she led him after that.

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He stood on the bridge at midnight,

Beneath the heaven’s great dome,

Because he was married and the jag that he carried,

Made him afraid to go home.

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When I go to bed at night I snore so loud I cannot sleep. In fact, I am often compelled to go into the next room so that I may not hear myself snore.

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“How is the milk maid?”

He said with a bow.

“It isn’t made, Sir,

It comes from a cow.”

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