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      Would Robin Hood Steal a Post Office Pen to Give to the Poor?

              “Oh, he’s so handsome, just like his reward posters!”

                         -Sis in Disney’s Robin Hood, 1973

I haven’t seen a reward poster in ever so long
Post-office portraits of men grizzled and mean
Each of ‘em wanted for some felonious wrong
(And living a life uncouth and unclean)

Maybe one of ‘em stole a post office pen
$500 or a year in prison
For committing that heinous federal sin
(He told the judge he thought it was his’n)

I haven’t seen a reward poster in years
(But still I’d leave that pen alone, my dears)