THEY teach such funny things in school! I never say a word, But when it's four o'clock I just Can't b'lieve the things I've heard. They say the earth is @3round,@1 just like A ball, and you can go For miles and never find the edge Though you try ever so! They say that should you dig right through The other side you'd find, And lots of China boys and girls With pig-tails down behind. (One day I digged a 'normus hole But, though I tried and tried And digged and digged, I never came Out on the other side). They say the twinkly stars are not Hung up by strings at all— But then you know they @3have@1 to be Or else they'd surely fall! They say there isn't any sky Turned over like a bowl And that the blue's not blue @3at all@1 But just a big black hole. And when the shiny sun goes down Like a great yellow ball Into the sea at supper time, It isn't wet at all! (But this, I think, is likely true, Because, beyond a doubt, If it got very soaking wet Its fire would go quite out.) They say I do not see the moon Move right across the sky— But then, you know, I @3do,@1 as they Can see as well as I! O dear! they say such funny things, I'm hardly @3sure@1 I'm me, I hardly know the things I know Or see the things I see! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...WOODSMOKE AT 70 by HAYDEN CARRUTH ON THE PROPOSAL TO ERECT A MONUMENT IN ENGLAND TO LORD BYRON by EMMA LAZARUS SURFACES AND MASKS; 12 by CLARENCE MAJOR SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: MRS. MERRITT by EDGAR LEE MASTERS OF JACOPO DEL SELLAIO by EZRA POUND PRESIDENT GARFIELD by GEORGE SANTAYANA FACADE: 24. AN OLD WOMAN LAMENTS IN SPRINGTIME by EDITH SITWELL |