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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A REGGERLER WRIGGLER, by BURGES JOHNSON Poet's Biography
First Line: When you was as little as me, did you care
Last Line: I'm a reggerler wriggler, that's what I am!
Subject(s): Children; Movement; Childhood
First Line: When you was as little as me, did you care
Last Line: I'm a reggerler wriggler, that's what I am!
Subject(s): Children; Movement; Childhood
When you was as little as me, did you care
If they made you stand still while they fooled with your hair,
And combed it and brushed it and told you "There, there!"?
Nurse says, when she lays down the comb with a slam,
I'm a reggerler wriggler,—maybe I am.
When I'm doing my lessons or eating my meals
I have to be still as a mouse, till it feels
As if I must pound on the floor with my heels.
At church it is awful,—the folks all declare
I'm a reggerler wriggler while I am there.
It is n't so easy, this trying to keep
Quite still in the daytime,—it hurts me a heap.
And they seem to forget that I'm still when I sleep.
I think little boys who sit still are a sham;
I'm a reggerler wriggler, that's what I am!
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