What care I how good it be?

Town or country, cool or hot,
Differs nothing, matters not;
For to quote that Roman cuss,
Why dispute "de gustibus?"
If to this or that one should
Take a fancy, it is good.
If these rhymes look good to me,
What care I how bad they be?



A Quatrain


A quatrain fills a little space,
Although it's pretty small,
And oftentimes, as in this case,
It has no point at all.



To a Light Housekeeper

(Who hitches laundering articles to the curtain
string and pastes them on the pane.)


Lady, thou that livest