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Margaret Fishback
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“To be a mother and a wife, / I'm often urged by all my kith / And kin — but as for husbands, life / Is easier without than with.”
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“Parsley, parsley, everywhere. / Damn, I want my victuals bare.”
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“Don't mail me any more proxies, please. / Tell me, incorporated tease, / Why don't you save the stamps and send, / Once in a while, a dividend?”
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“Why is it that one has to drink? / Why is it that one's hosts should think / It queer these days if guests prefer / A respite? Doesn't it occur / To anyone that no offense / Is meant by harmless abstinence?”
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“Whatever its function, / like's not a conjunction.”
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“To be polite to everybody except the people they love most is a nervous affectation that afflicts many families ... when they come home, they take off their smiles and soft words, and sit about, spiritually in their underwear. This isn't pretty.”
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“Her cocktail bouts are long and loud, / She asks a monumental crowd, / For, to be frank, her one concern / Is being feted in return.”
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“The same old charitable lie, / Repeated as the years scoot by, / Perpetually makes a hit — / 'You really haven't changed a bit!'”
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“I'm a recipe clipper / I pile them in drawers. / They're yellow with age. And / I hoard them by scores; / But when I decide that I'll try / something new. / I can't find the clipping, / my file's such a stew.”
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“I dote the baple buds are swellig — / It bust be Sprig that I ab sbellig. / Agaid, the bird is od the wig / And Dature starts her Highlad Flig.”
Margaret Fishback, U.S. poet, humorist, advertising copywriter
(1904 - 1985)
Full name: Margaret Fishback Antolini.