I LIKE fun -- and I like jokes 'Bout as well as most o' folks! -- Like my joke, and like my fun; -- But a joke, I'll state right here, 'S got some p'int -- er I don't keer Fer no joke that hain't got none. -- I hain't got no use, I'll say, Fer a @3pore@1 joke, anyway! F'r instunce, now, when @3some@1 folks gits To relyin' on theyr wits, Ten to one they git too smart And @3spile@1 it all, right at the start! Feller wants to jest go slow And do his @3thinkin'@1 first, you know 'F I can't think up somepin' good, I set still and chaw my cood! 'F you @3think@1 nothin' -- jest keep on, But don't @3say@1 it -- er you're gone! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BY THE ALMA RIVER by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK THE NEW INN: A VISION OF BEAUTY by BEN JONSON PORTRAIT BY A NEIGHBOR by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY A TRIP TO PARIS AND BELGIUM: 16. ANTWERP TO GHENT by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI ADONAIS; AN ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF JOHN KEATS by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY |