If you must get somebody down on the floor,
What in the hell are your parents for?
Categories: Poetry
Tagged: childhood, family, humorous poems, Ogden Nash
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Portrait of a Girl With Comic Book 2
Twelve has its tribal customs. But thirteen
Is neither boys in battered cars nor dolls…
Categories: Poetry
Tagged: adolescence, ageing, childhood, Phyllis McGinley, social commentary