The Gentleman

She went for a walk with Oliver Klosoff

In the middle of a hot July day.

Children were playing with garden hoses

In their front yards, while their fathers

Indulged themselves with ice cold beer

On the front porch.

They passed many a front porch

Without any children noticing she was with Oliver Klosoff

However, the men with their ice cold beer

Stared in disbelief on this hot July day.

With alcohol on their breath, the fathers

Sent the children inside, and began playing with their garden hoses.

Thick and long were their garden hoses

As they handled them in the yard near the front porch.

She chuckled and waved to the fathers,

As they must have been excited to see her with Oliver Klosoff.

It was on this hot July day

That she was cooler than any ice cold beer.

The sweat on the bottle of the ice cold beer

Was nothing compared to the sweat on the garden hoses

The men had worked up on the hot July day.

After she passed, the men sat on the steps of the front porch

And thought of their wives with Oliver Klosoff

And how awesomeness and delightfulness could be his fathers.

As she walked along the sidewalk, she thought of the fathers

And the way they chugged the bottles of ice cold beer

As they watched her with the god-like gentleman, Oliver Klosoff.

The men daydreamed of the two on the front porch,

Clutching their garden hoses

In the afternoon of the hot July day.

Shortly after she passed by on the hot July day,

The men decided to act less like men and more like fathers.

So in a drunken stagger, they left the front porch,

Still clutching onto their ice cold beer.

They put their away their garden hoses,

And told their wives they should go walking with Oliver Klosoff.

It was on this hot July day, with the aid of ice cold beer,

That the fathers played with their garden hoses

And watched her from the front porch with Oliver Klosoff.

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