Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, BAD COOKING, by WALT MASON


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First Line: What is it roughens true love's course, and
Last Line: Bills? Bad cooking.
Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Love - Complaints; Marriage; Quarrels; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Arguments; Disagreements


WHAT is it roughens true love's course, and makes men cuss till they are hoarse,

and leads to quarrels and divorce? Bad cooking. What is it ruins love's young
dream, and queers the matrimonial team, and makes the married life a scream? Bad

cooking. What is it comes when women prance to euchre party and to dance, and
leave the home at every chance? Bad cooking. What follows when the girls grow
smart, and say they're wedded to their Art, and learn some Ibsen junk by heart?

Bad cooking. What happens when they play the harp as well as some imported
sharp, instead of frying German carp? Bad cooking. What is it fills untimely
graves, out where the bone-yard bluegrass waves, with victims of the kitchen
knaves? Bad cooking. What is it drives the boys from home, in glaring, noisy
dens to roam, and from cold steins to blow the foam? Bad cooking. Why are the
people taking pills, and medicine in flowing rills, and always paying doctor's
bills? Bad cooking.





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