Speaking Of Hunting

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When a button rolls under the bureau
  The search is a woeful affair;
And the humorous weekly describes it but meekly
  In saying the hunter will swear.
But what is that limited anger?
  The impotent rage of a cub!
I only grow what you could really call hot
  When the soap slips under the tub.

I've sought through a time-table's mazes,
  And sworn at the men who devise
That scare and delusion of hopeless confusion,
  That intricate bundle of lies.
But never a hunt that was harder,
  Be you or professor or dub,
Than that ill-fated jest--I refer to the quest--
  When the soap falls back of the tub

My paste pot escapes almost daily;
  My scissors I never can find;
And I am the rotter who loses a blotter
  More often than if he were blind.

But sooner a myriad searches
  Than go to the worry and troub.
That one little cake saponaceous can make
  When the soap slips under the tub--
Blank! Blank!
  When the soap slips under the tub.

© Franklin Pierce Adams