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She Will Sleep For Food

She Will Sleep for Food By Elton Camp To make her own living she knows how to do, If others else will supply it, she prefers not to She may unexpectedly show up at your door Even though you have never seen her before If you should dare to open it a narrow crack, She’ll force her way in and won’t come back Up against you she will coyly start to scrub And invite you, her smooth, silky hair to rub There is no need to say, “I’ve no need for you.” Because words like that she knows to be untrue So you might just as well go ahead and admit That you already are attracted to her quite a bit Right into your lap she will proceed to jump And you go along with it like some old chump That you’re much older and ugly she doesn’t see You’ve got what she wants and she gets it free And in all honesty, you simply must confess, That she looks very nice not wearing a dress Attention that you show, she returns in kind Her purring into your ear makes you feel fine Now, don’t expect that she’ll do any work at all For it is you who must be at her beck and call Even to clean up her own messes is now your job So be prepared since you’ll have the floor to swab It isn’t very likely that you’ll ever regret the day You took the cat into your house and let her stay Even your own spouse agrees it would be too rude To turn away one who is willing to sleep for food

Copyright © | Year Posted 2011




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