Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, UNREST, by BURGES JOHNSON


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First Line: The motorman bangs on his noisy gong
Last Line: I know I'm tired of being me!
Subject(s): Children; Labor & Laborers; Self; Childhood; Work; Workers


The motorman bangs on his noisy gong
And grins at folks as he whoops along,
Or stops up quick to jerk us:
Wish 't I was him! But I'd like it more
As a druggist-clerk in a city store,
A-mixing soda and fizz and pop,—
Or I'd be the help in a candy shop,
Or one of the boys to mind the bell,
In a uniform in a big hotel
If it didn't over-work us!
Or I'd be a tramp, 'cause his folks don't care
If he's washed his face or has brushed his hair;
Or else be a missionary, so
That I could get foreign stamps, you know:
But best of all I would like to go
And be a clown at a circus.
There's other things I might like to be—
I know I'm tired of being Me!





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