It was, after all,
a wink, wink here
and a nudge, nudge
there. What if I like
the jokes that are always
on me? We could have
ended there, with the cow
and the Douglas fir. But you?
You’re always one-upping
every Tom, Dick and Scarry.
Slenderer brothers have splint
ereing fathers. Or, so the say
ing goes. And, oh! E, I, E, I, Oh!