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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON DIGITAL EXTREMITIES, by FRANK GELETT BURGESS Poet's Biography
First Line: I'd rather have fingers than toes
Last Line: I'll be awfully sad when it goes.
Alternate Author Name(s): Burgess, Gelett
Variant Title(s): Goop Rhymes;fingers And Toes
Subject(s): Baldness
First Line: I'd rather have fingers than toes
Last Line: I'll be awfully sad when it goes.
Alternate Author Name(s): Burgess, Gelett
Variant Title(s): Goop Rhymes;fingers And Toes
Subject(s): Baldness
I'd rather have fingers than toes;
I'd rather have ears than a nose;
And as for my hair
I'm glad it's all there,
I'll be awfully sad when it goes.
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