Some men, some men
Cannot pass a
Book shop.
(Lady, make your mind up, and wait your life away.)
Some men, some men
Cannot pass a
Crap game.
(He said he’d come a moonrise, and here’s another day!)
Some men, some men,
Cannot pass a
Bar-room.
(Wait about, and hang about, and that’s the way it goes.)
Some men, some men
Cannot pass a
Woman.
(Heaven never send me another one of those!)
Some men, some men,
Cannot pass a
Golf course.
(Read a book, and sew a seam, and slumber if you can.)
Some men, some men,
Cannot pass a
Haberdasher’s.
(All your life you wait around for some damn man!)
From Enough Rope (Boni & Liveright, 1926) by Dorothy Parker. This poem is in the public domain.