A little fun occasionally is all right, but life is too short and too serious to spend it all around the monkey cage.

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Stop—Look—Listen

“I do not fear a siren

With a mass of midnight hair;

With wicked, drooping eyelids,

And a blase, worldly air;

But, oh, I cross my fingers,

And I breathe a little prayer,

When I meet a blond-haired cutie,