Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IT MUST BE YEARS, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poet's Biography First Line: It must be years and years ago Last Line: It must be years and years ago. Subject(s): Nostalgia | ||||||||
It must be years and years ago, When things were cheap, and we had snow -- It must be forty, I suppose -- When men wore whiskers, women clo'es, And So-and-So knew So-and-So (Now no one no one ever knows). Why, I remember sirloin steak Ten cents a pound. You didn't make A lot of money, maybe, no -- But, gosh, you didn't need it so; Not very much it used to take -- But that was years and years ago. It must be -- I remember when Folks went to church, yes, even men; Believed the Bible. Backslid? Oh, Some fellahs sometimes did, I know, But got religion back again As soon as they was feelin' low. What was it I was goin' to say About the things of yesterday? Well honest, neighbor, I don't know: When I git reminiscin' so I sort of wander far away Along the path of long ago. And when you git as old as me Then just as fair a memory These days will seem to you, I know: I guess it always will be so; For life to look its best to be It must be years and years ago. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE BELL FROM EUROPE by WELDON KEES THE STONE TABLE by GALWAY KINNELL LETTER TO MAXINE SULLIVAN by HAYDEN CARRUTH HANGING THE BLUE NUNS; FOR WARREN CARRIER by MADELINE DEFREES OF POLITICS, & ART by NORMAN DUBIE MY SISTER LIKED THE POSTCARD OF SNOW by ANSELM HOLLO THE PLAYER PIANO by RANDALL JARRELL A DIFFERENT WAY by DOUGLAS MALLOCH |
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