Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, A RECOLLECTION, by BURGES JOHNSON


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First Line: When we was visitin' a farm
Last Line: L laugh at things that isn't jokes.
Subject(s): Children; Pain; Childhood; Suffering; Misery


When we was visitin' a farm
I begged an' begged an' maybe squealed,
(I didn't see how it could harm)
To just run barefoot in a field.
Until at last the lady said
They'd better let me go ahead.

It was so stubbully that each
Poor foot got hurtin' right away;
Still I was bound that I would reach
A haystack an' pertend to play.
But I just cried against the stack
For somebody to fetch me back.

My brother only stood an' laughed!
I might uv caught my death-o-cold
Away out there in all that draught,
'Cause I am only eight years old.
But sometimes seems zif older folks
'L laugh at things that isn't jokes.





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