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Trades
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The Anatomy of Trades by Stewart Stafford
Detective Toes, Senator Nose,
Eye-eye Captain,
And Rhinologist Blows.
Banker Bum, Painter Thumb,
Judge Mental,
And Dentist Gum.
Dancer Hip, President Lip,
Dermatologist Peel,
Goalie Fingertip.
Beautician Eyelash, Barber Moustache
Boxer Fist,
And Doctor Rash.
© Stewart Stafford, 2021. All rights reserved.
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How the WASPs loved to nickname their children after the workaday trades: Tinker. Cooper. Smithy. Maybe it was to hearken back to their seventeenth-century New England bootstraps--the manual trades that had made them stalwart and humble and virtuous in the eyes of their Lord. Or maybe it was just a way of politely understating their predestination to having it all.
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― Rules of Civility
― Rules of Civility
