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...TIRED TIM by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE PARTED by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR THE OLD MAN DREAMS by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 1ST SERIES: 38 by EDWARD TAYLOR BIVOUAC ON A MOUNTAIN SIDE by WALT WHITMAN WRITTEN IN IRELAND by MARY (CUMBERLAND) ALCOCK |