Sunday 31 May 2015

A VERY GREAT POEM. I LOVE THIS POEM

A VERY GREAT POEM


 
1871-1943

"First Dentistry was Painless"
From "Gaily the Troubadour", 1936

 

First dentistry was painless;
Then bicycles were chainless
And carriages were horseless 
And many laws, enforceless.
Next, cookery was fireless,
Telegraphy was wireless,
Cigars were nicotineless 
And coffee, caffeineless.
Soon oranges were seedless,
The putting green was weedless,
The college boy hatless,
The proper diet, fatless,
Now motor roads are dustless,
The latest steel is rustless,
Our tennis courts are sodless,
Our new religions, godless. 

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