immorality by don marquis

[labellementeuse]

immorality

i was up to central
park yesterday watching some
kids build a snow man when
they were done and had
gone away i looked it
over they had used two
little chunks of wood for
the eyes i sat on one
of these and stared at
the bystanders along came a
prudish looking
lady from flatbush she
stopped and regarded the
snow man i stood
up on my hind legs in
the eye socket and
waved myself at her
horrors she cried even the
snow men in manhattan
are immoral officer arrest
that statue it winked
at me madam said the cop
accept the tribute
as a christmas present
and be happy my own
belief is that some
people have immorality
on the brain

archy

-- Don Marquis (from archy's life of mehitabel)

Comments

[derrick-reeves.livejournal.com]

Very slick. Easier to cold read than it looks, too.

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

I adore the archy and mehitabel stuff- have you not read it? there's an introduction page here (http://www.donmarquis.com/archy/) and a whole bunch of poems ; as for reading, that one's not too bad but archy pprotests (http://www.donmarquis.com/readingroom/archybooks/archyprotests.html) takes a little more effort; and reading them aloud can be awfully ddifficult if you don't know the poem quite well. But they're so awesome. :D (http://www.donmarquis.com/readingroom/index.html)

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

oh my gosh, HTML is not my friend.

Reading Room (http://www.donmarquis.com/readingroom/index.html) and archy protests (http://www.donmarquis.com/readingroom/archybooks/archyprotests.html).

You see,

[thinkaholic.livejournal.com]

It's all in how you hold your tag ;)

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

I... don't get it.

;)

[disturbed-kiwi.livejournal.com]

It's all in how you hold your tongue^w Tag

heh, pwned

[thinkaholic.livejournal.com]

Beat me to it will ya?

Yeah, i suppose you did.... ;)

Re: heh, pwned

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

I still don't get it, but I, um, don;t care. whatever.

[disturbed-kiwi.livejournal.com]

When you're doing something tricky and you get it wrong, it is often the case that someone else will try and get it right first go. A typical phrase used to defuse any potential tension over relative skills, is "It's all in the way you hold your tongue" implying that a remarkably unrelated element may have been missed out by the first person without implying shame over the exclusion.

Here Thinkaholic has changed Tongue to Tag, a pun on the fact that your tags were probably not quite formatted correctly in the intial reply.