A Clue For the Adams!

Semantics**


Call a woman a kitten, but never a cat;
You can call her a mouse, cannot call her a rat;
Call a woman a chicken, but never a hen;
Or you surely will not be her caller again.


You can call her a duck, cannot call her a goose;
You can call her a deer, but never a moose;
You can call her a lamb, but never a sheep;
Economic she likes, but you can’t call her cheap.


You can say she’s a vision, can’t say she’s a sight;
And no woman is skinny, she’s slender and slight;
If she should burn you up, say she sets you afire;
And you’ll always be welcome, you tricky old liar.



(**A poem entitled “semantics” by John E. Donovan, in the Saturday Evening Post,July 13, 1946 as cited in Mccrimmon’s)