Love was a park
Where I sat upon soft
Grass that was your hair.
You laughed white butterflies,
And pouted gnats.
Along came the Good-Humor man,
Jing-a-ling, Jing-a-ling,
And I bought you happiness.
— Shirley Sterling
Poetry UCR No. 7, 1963

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