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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
NAMING HIM, by BURGES JOHNSON Poet's Biography
First Line: You'd think, while they're trying to find me a name
Last Line: Meanwhile they forget that I haven't been fed!
Subject(s): Babies; Names; Parents; Infants; Parenthood
First Line: You'd think, while they're trying to find me a name
Last Line: Meanwhile they forget that I haven't been fed!
Subject(s): Babies; Names; Parents; Infants; Parenthood
You'd think, while they're trying to find me a name
That I'd have a right to a part in the game!
Through most of the morning my father has said
Just nothing but Aaron, while mother, instead,
Would settle her family name on my head;
Meanwhile they forget that I haven't been fed!
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