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The Shirt

by Jane Kenyon

Jane Kenyon

The shirt touches his neck
and smooths over his back.
It slides down his sides.
It even goes down below his belt—
down into his pants.
Lucky shirt.




Quotes of the Day

The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby.
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    A Culinary Puzzle
    by Ellis Parker Butler
    In our dainty little kitchen, Where my aproned wife is queen Over all the tin-pan people, In a realm exceeding clean, Oft I like to loiter, watching While she mixes things for tea;