Love under Lakas (or Kampi)

Love under Lakas (or Kampi)

by Ogden Nash (I highlighted the ones I updated and localized)

Come live with me and be my love
And we will all the pleasures prove
Of a marriage conducted with economy
In the Twenty-first Century Anno Donomy.
We’ll live in a dear little walk-up flat
With practically room to swing a cat
And a potted cactus to give it hauteur
And a bathtub equipped with dark brown water.
We’ll eat, without undue discouragement,
Foods low in cost but high in nouragement
And quaff with pleasure, while chatting wittily,
The peculiar basi of Little Bangui.
We’ll remind each other it’s smart to be thrifty
And buy our clothes for something-fifty.
We’ll go and stand in lines at SM Cines
For seats at unpopular matinees,
And every Sunday we’ll have a lark
And take a walk in Burnham Park.
And one of these days not too remote
I’ll probably up and cut your throat.