More 5 p.m. poetry

[redbird]

My candle burns at both ends, it will not last the night

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Edna St.Vincent Millay!

[yonmei.livejournal.com]

Was it for this I uttered prayers,
And sobbed and cursed and kicked the stairs,
That now, domestic as a plate,
I should retire at half-past eight?

[womzilla.livejournal.com]

[Harpo produces a candle burning at both ends from pocket.]

Groucho: Okay, I was wrong. There's something you can't burn at both ends, and I thought it was a candle.

[pdcawley.livejournal.com]

But O my friends and ah my foes, it gives such lovely light.