“We don't piss in your ashtrays,
So please don't throw cigarettes in our urinals.”

— Kurt Vonnegut, book God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

Eliot Rosewater's favorite poem, from the wall of the men's room at the Log Cabin Inn.
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1965)

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American writer 1922–2007

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