| Have you noticed what a contest
Has been going on of late? Every blessed thing around us Seems to want to aviate. Airship men are fighting, striving, For the greatest altitude And we all are quite familiar With the current price of food. Now the fashions are decreeing Higher hems for misses' skirts; Some among the latest models Would not do for decent shirts. In this age of aviating Men are mounting to the breeze, And the girls are wearing dresses That will hardly hide their knees. Every season finds them shorter And it's time to call a halt, Ere the blasts of rude November From the polar regions vault. If the girls keep on undressing At the rate they have this fall, Ere the snow of winter strikes them They will have no skirts at all. __Albert Stroud. |
Verdigris Valley Verse
Albert Stroud
(Coffeyville, Kansas: The Journal Press. 1917)
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