"to bring it off"

Terrance lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Tue Jun 19 04:59:32 CDT 2001


http://people.a2000.nl/avanarum/

Hurry up please it's time 


  If you don't like it you can get on with it,
  I said.  

  Others can pick and choose if you can't.  
  But if Albert makes off, it won't be for
  lack of telling.  

  You ought to be ashamed, I said, to look
  so antique.  
  (And her only thirty-one.)  

  I can't help it, she said, pulling a long
  face,  
  It's them pills I took, to bring it off, she
  said.  
  (She's had five already, and nearly died
  of young George.)  
  The chemist said it would be all right, but
  I've never been the same.



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