Captain Billy's Whiz Bang #20 — page 47: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page contains two humorous poems rather than political cartoons. "Our Lonely Love-Sick Gob" is a sailor's confessional verse about romantic rejection—a shipmate stole his girlfriend by telling stories, and she left him for this rival. The poem's humor derives from the sailor's naive complaint and the crude moral: warn other lovesick sailors to keep their romantic interests away from shipmates. "Human Nature" is a brief, cynical quatrain playing on double meanings: absence, peroxide, onions, and "bunk" (nonsense) produce predictable results, with the final punchline suggesting that manure makes grass grow—implying human nature itself is worthless or productive only of negativity. Both poems target working-class male audiences with bawdy, self-deprecating humor typical of early 20th-century servicemen's magazines.