"Jack Spink was fond of drink, His wife preferred to eat; For eats is eats and wets is wets And never the twain shall meet."
— Newman Levy

January 1, 1970

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"Poem", in LIFE, vol. 91, no. 2364 (February 23, 1928), p. 8. Slightly altered in My Double Life (1958), ch. 13: "His wife, she liked to eat". Parody of Kipling, "East and West" (1889)