Thee
common sayings make me laugh,
For
they are never true by half;
These
foolish sayings, which each day,
The
common run of people say.
“I’m
frozen stiff,” we’ve often heard;
If
true they couldn’t say a word.
“I’m
all broke up,” a man will say,
Yet
attend business every day.
“The
wind blew through me,” mind you, through;
How
queer they’d look if it were true.
“She
dropped her yes;” would not that be
A
very sad calamity?
“I’m
busted;” a financial break
A
hundred times you’ve heard them make;
“I
caught the train;” you did? Well, well,
What
did you catch it with, pray tell?
“She
cut me dead the other day,”
You
often hear some fellow say.
Worse
still you’ll hear someone aver:
“She’s
suck on him,” or “him on her.”
“I
never slept a wink last night,”
Is
an exaggeration quite.
“The
rain came down in bucketfuls,”
Is
but another of those bulls.
And
so they go from day to day,
These
foolish things that people say.
To
get them all in print, I think,
Would
take a barrel full of ink.
JOE
CONE
July
30, ‘06
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