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It's All Relative

A poem about a relative


In Cornwall my cousin, dear Daisy, did dwell,

Sing Summer-slow, barleymow, indigo haze!

And as soon as we met I was under her spell,

Charmed and disarmed by her gaze.

Bonny and buxom and cuddlesome too

She hinted we might, and we did, as you do

When familial fondling is novel and new

In those Summer-slow, long-ago days.


Though, duly, my cousin to Cornwall returned,

Sing water-flow, tidal-tow, fire-glow blaze!

Still sweet are those relative values I learned,

In a novice’s innocent ways;

We frolicked for only a weekend, and yet

For family ties I shall never forget

Dear Daisy’s the cousin I’m glad to have met

In those fire-glow, long-ago days.

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