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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
UNRELIABLE, by WALT MASON Poet's Biography
First Line: On james p. Jinks you can't depend-he
Last Line: They made.
Subject(s): Idleness; Youth; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence
First Line: On james p. Jinks you can't depend-he
Last Line: They made.
Subject(s): Idleness; Youth; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence
"ON James P. Jinks you can't depend—he doesn't keep his word." This is the
punkest recommend that any man has heard. The delegate with that renown can't
find much work to do; whenever he appears in town, employers cry out "Shoo." I
hired a youth whose name is Charles, to help me bale some hay; to bind the deal
I paid him arles, he said he'd come next day. But never did that youth appear,
which made my lifeblood boil; he went a-fishing in the mere, and passed up
honest toil. He comes to me when days are flown, and hits me for a job, but
evermore I turn him down, the piker and the swab. He comes to me when tempest
blows, and asks me for a pie, but I've no charity for those on whom one can't
rely. I hire a youth named Bennie Bird to ply the saw and sperthe, for lads who
do not keep their word are of but little worth. The down-and-outs are mostly men
who this false system played; who broke and broke, and broke again the promises
they made.
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