| We are moving down at our house there is chaos
everywhere; We can see it in the prospect, we can feel it in the air. There are blankets on the clothes-line and the porch is piled with rugs, We have kerosened the bedsteads to exterminate the bugs. I am searching for a weapon to extract a stubborn screw, But my neighbor cannot help me, 'cause his folks are moving too. 'Tis the season for departing from the well accus- tomed groove, When the migratory microbe makes the women want to move. Yes, we're moving down at our house, we are going to fly the coop; There is bedlam in the kitchen, there are toothpicks in the soup, There are rain barrels in the parlor, filled with divers kind of junk, And we're sleeping in the cellar with a carpet for a bunk. |
Verdigris Valley Verse
Albert Stroud
(Coffeyville, Kansas: The Journal Press. 1917)
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