There's something I'm @3awfully@1 anxious to know, I think it's important as it can be— S'pose it had happened beforehand so That I was somebody else but me? Then some other boy would be your little boy, An' love you more than a tongue-can-tell; I wonder would he be his mother's-joy, An' smooth her headaches to make them well? —'@3Cause I think it's funny as it can be, That you is you, an' me is me.@1 I've worried and bothered for most a day, 'Termining what I should ever do, If things were arranged in a different way, An' you should be somebody else but you. You'd live in some other place but here— Far away, maybe—but anyhow, I'm perfectly positive, Mother dear, I'd love you 'zactly as much as now. —@3But I think it's funny as it can be, That you is you, an' me is me.@1 If you was somebody else but you, P'r'aps we'd meet in the street some day, An' @3I'd@1 be p'lite an' say "Howdedo!" An' "What a @3nice@1 little boy!" you'd say. Then we'd walk for almost a block, before I'd tell you just who I was—an' then— You wouldn't be somebody else anymore, An' I'd be your little boy again. —@3An' I think it's funny as it can be, That you is you, an' me is me.@1 | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...POETRY by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON THE EXPANDED COMPOSITION by CLARENCE MAJOR ADELAIDE AND JOHN WILKES BOOTH by EDGAR LEE MASTERS SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: AMOS SIBLEY by EDGAR LEE MASTERS SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: YEE BOW by EDGAR LEE MASTERS A CARELESS HEART by ISAAC ROSENBERG |