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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=342846" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Lusus Politicus</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Come in, old gentleman. How do you do?<br>Delighted, I'm sure, that you've called.<br>I'm a sociable sort of a chap and you<br>Are a pleasant-appearing person, too,<br>With a head agreeably bald.<br>That's right-sit down in the scuttle of coal<br>And put up your feet in a chair.<br>It is better to have them there:<br>And I've always said that a hat of lead,<br>Such as I see you wear,<br>Was a better hat than a hat of glass.<br>And your boots of brass<br>Are a natural kind of boots, I swear.<br>'May you blow your nose on a paper of pins?'<br>Why, certainly, man, why not?<br>I rather expected you'd do it before,<br>When I saw you poking it in at the door.<br>It's dev'lish hot<br>The weather, I mean. 'You are twins'?<br>Why, that was evident at the start,<br>From the way that you paint your head<br>In stripes of purple and red,<br>With dots of yellow.<br>That proves you a fellow<br>With a love of legitimate art.<br>'You've bitten a snake and are feeling bad'?<br>That's very sad,<br>But Longfellow's words I beg to recall:<br>Your lot is the common lot of all.<br>'Horses are trees and the moon is a sneeze'?<br>That, I fancy, is just as you please.<br>Some think that way and others hold<br>The opposite view;<br>I never quite knew,<br>For the matter o' that,<br>When everything's been said<br>May I offer this mat<br>If you _will_ stand on your head?<br>I suppose I look to be upside down<br>From your present point of view.<br>It's a giddy old world, from king to clown,<br>And a topsy-turvy, too.<br>But, worthy and now uninverted old man,<br>_You're_ built, at least, on a normal plan<br>If ever a truth I spoke.<br>Smoke?<br>Your air and conversation<br>Are a liberal education,<br>And your clothes, including the metal hat<br>And the brazen boots-what's that?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'You never could stomach a Democrat<br>Since General Jackson ran?<br>You're another sort, but you predict<br>That your party'll get consummately licked?'<br>Good God! what a queer old man!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ambrose+Bierce">Ambrose Bierce</a><div class=q>
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Delighted, I'm sure, that you've called.
I'm a sociable sort of a chap and you
Are a pleasant-appearing person, too,
With a head agreeably bald.
That's right-sit down in the scuttle of coal
And put up your fe..."></div>
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