Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WHAT PUZZLES ME, by BURGES JOHNSON Poet's Biography First Line: There's something I'm awfully anxious to know Last Line: That you is you, an' me is me. Subject(s): Children; Curiosities & Wonders; Fate; Mothers & Sons; Childhood; Enigmas; Oddities; Destiny | ||||||||
There's something I'm awfully anxious to know, I think it's important as it can be S'pose it had happened beforehand so That I was somebody else but me? Then some other boy would be your little boy, An' love you more than a tongue-can-tell; I wonder would he be his mother's-joy, An' smooth her headaches to make them well? 'Cause I think it's funny as it can be, That you is you, an' me is me. I've worried and bothered for most a day, 'Termining what I should ever do, If things were arranged in a different way, An' you should be somebody else but you. You'd live in some other place but here Far away, maybebut anyhow, I'm perfectly positive, Mother dear, I'd love you 'zactly as much as now. But I think it's funny as it can be, That you is you, an' me is me. If you was somebody else but you, P'r'aps we'd meet in the street some day, An' I'd be p'lite an' say "Howdedo!" An' "What a nice little boy!" you'd say. Then we'd walk for almost a block, before I'd tell you just who I wasan' then You wouldn't be somebody else anymore, An' I'd be your little boy again. An' I think it's funny as it can be, That you is you, an' me is me. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ATTEMPTING TO ANSWER DAVID IGNATOW'S QUESTION by ROBERT BLY FROST AND HIS ENEMIES by ROBERT BLY THE WORLDS IN THIS WORLD by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR UNABLE TO FIND by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR TO HELEN KELLER - HUMANITARIAN, SOCIAL DEMOCRAT, GREAT SOUL by EDWIN MARKHAM DOMESDAY BOOK: FINDING OF THE BODY by EDGAR LEE MASTERS WE COME BACK by KENNETH REXROTH THE WAKING (2) by THEODORE ROETHKE A BABY AT THE PARTY by BURGES JOHNSON |
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