If …
by cricketjeff on April 9, 2009. © Jeff Green, All rights reserved
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are chugging beer and sniffing pots of glue
If you can trust yourself when drunk friends tempt you
But laugh with all the foolish things they do
And if next day you wake, refreshed, clear headed
Remembering who had the wildest times
Just write a list of who had who well bedded
And blackmail is the easiest of crimes …
Author notes
With apologies to Rudyard Kipling’s If …
http://oldpoetry.com/opoem/2940-Rudyard-Kipling-If—-
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