Relationships
The Jam-Pot
From The Home Book of Verse, ed. Burton Egbert Stevenson (1912)
Relationships
The Jam-pot--tender thought!
I grabbed it--so did you.
"What wonder while we fought
Together that it flew
In shivers?" you retort.
You should have loosed your hold
One moment--checked your fist.
But, as it was, too bold
You grappled and you missed.
More plainly--you were sold.
"Well, neither of us shared
The dainty." That your plea?
"Well, neither of us cared,"
I answer.... "Let me see.
How have your trousers fared?"
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Kipling, Rudyard. “The Jam-Pot.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/kipling/466/.
Chicago
Kipling, Rudyard. “The Jam-Pot.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/kipling/466/.
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