XVIII

Last night I dreamed a passing dotty dream--

I thought the cards were coming all my way,

That I could shut and open things all day

While Mame and I were getting thick as cream,

And starred as an amalgamated team

In a cigar-box flat across the bay--

Just then the alarm clock blew to pieces. Say,

Wouldn't that jam you? I should rather scream.

Sleep, like a bunco artist, rubbed it in,

Sold me his ten-cent oil stocks, though he knew

It was a Kosher trick to take the tin

When I was such an easy thing to do;

For any centenarian can see

To ring a bull's-eye when he shoots at me.

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