Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, EVICTED, by WALT MASON


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EVICTED, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: New gray hairs are adorning my venerable
Last Line: Alarm; and we shall join the paupers, out at the county farm.
Subject(s): Farm Life; Modesty; Poverty; Agriculture; Farmers


NEW gray hairs are adorning my venerable dome. The sheriff came this morning and

shooed me from my home. My good wife, Jane Mirandy, is weeping by the gate, and

little Bess and Andy can't get their smiles on straight. Life treated us so
gayly, that living seemed like play, but now it's willow-waly, alas, alackaday!

We used up every dollar, as fast as it was earned, and now we sit and holler for

all the coin we burned. We laughed at plodding neighbors, who pickled half their

scads, the product of their labors, the dollars of their dads. While they were
toiling, plugging, with fun from them afar, we went around chug-chugging, in
mortgaged motor car. We heard the sages gabble of rainy days and woe, but
laughed, and joined the rabble, to see the movie show. We hit the higher places,

regardless of expense, and now the sheriff chases us from our residence. Well
may you weep, Mirandy, and squirt the tears around, and well may Bess and Andy
send up a doleful sound. Now that we've come our croppers, we view things with
alarm; and we shall join the paupers, out at the county farm.





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