Franklin P. Adams

Capitolo 3

If boys of office were all the cranks
  On base-ball;  if the sale price
  Of meat and coal and eggs and ice
        It would stop his/her angry increase;
If women started to say "Thanks"
  When men abandoned their places in cars;
  If there were anybody but the good cigars,
        And better still the police--

If any there was such what as fun;
  If the mother of wifey never came
  To visit;  if a game of foot-ball
        It was mild and harmless sport;
If everybody the Presidential news
  It was colourless;  if there were men
  To every mountain, sea-side, narrow and long valley,
        River and appeal of lake--

If every girl were equitable of face;
  If women didn't fear to get
  Their suits for so defined bathing bathed--
        If everybody these things were true,
This earth would be a pleasant place.
  But where people would you/they find their laughters?
  And from where it would jump the paragraphs?
        And what is able character of substitution?



The Simple Stuff

AD PUERUM

Horace:  You book me, Ode 32.

"Hates of _Persicos, puer, apparatus_."



Reject on the Persian pretense!
  Myrtle for Quintus H. Flaccus!
Garlands of the tree of linden, from now!
Reject on the Persian pretense!
Waiter, here are seventy cents--
  Come, allows me to celebrate Bacchus!
Reject on the Persian pretense!
  Myrtle for Quintus H. Flaccus.



"Carps Diem", or he/she Catches the day

AD LEUCONOEN

Horace:  You book me, Ode 13.

Quoesieris of of it of _"Tu, scire nefas--"_



It is not right for you to know, so he/she doesn't ask,
  Leuconoe,
How much time a life the of the can give or never us
  you/he/she has gone away;
You try not to read the Final Page the end,
  colophonian,
Doesn't have trust in the tea-leaves of the gypsy, neither the
  you prophesy Babylonian.
Better having what is to come to enshrouded
  in obscurity
Whether to be sure of the kind and length of
  our future.
Because, also as me monologue on wisdom and
  longevity
How Time has flown! Pierce through some of him!
  Longest life is the brevity.



What For Money!

AD C. SALLUSTIUM CRISPUM