Collected Poems of John Holmes
Holmes, John A., Jr.
2002
New woman in the house
New woman in the house
This is a most intelligent Infant and most elegant, But who wants to be? Not me, Nor Margaret. She's she, Herself the only Margaret In the world she knows yet. She knows a thing or two To do, or already three. One is to smile up at me As if she knows I'm who. She has her mother's looks, And my brains out of books, Or, as some have found, Both the other way round. But the way the race is, She will pass and surpass us. Well, I'm not daunted. Isn't that what we wanted? | |