Ladies And Gents

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Title:     Ladies And Gents
Author: Walt Mason [More Titles by Mason]

When I was younger kids were kids, in Kansas or in Cadiz; now all the boys are gentlemen, and all the girls are ladies. Where are the kids who climbed the trees, the tousled young carousers, who got their faces black with dirt, and tore their little trousers? Where are the lads who scrapped by rounds, while other lads kept tallies? The maids who made their pies of mud, and danced in dirty alleys? They're making calf-love somewhere now, exchanging cards and kisses, they're all fixed up in Sunday togs, and they are Sirs and Misses. Real kids have vanished from the world--which fact is surely hades; and all the boys are gentlemen, and all the girls are ladies.

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Walt Mason's poem: Ladies And Gents

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