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KIDS
Witter Bynner
“Hey, I’ve found some money-wort,
Some day I’ll be rich!
Or I wonder if it’s checkerberry?
I don’t know which is which.
“Look, don’t touch that blade of grass,
Just keep away from it!
For see that frothy, bubbly ball?
That’s snake-spit!
“Cover your lips, the darning-needle
Loves to sew ’em up! —
Who likes butter? Lift your chin —
Here’s a buttercup.
“She loves me — she loves me not —
I wish that I knew why
It always comes a different way
Every time I try.
“How many children? Here you are —
You can have three blows —
And you don’t want many children.
For you have to buy ’em clo’es.
Now we can take the stems, see,
And wet ’em into curls
And stick ’em in our hair and run
And make believe we’re girls.
“D’ye ever whistle a blade of grass?
Look, I got a fat one . . .
You slit it, see? Here’s one for you —
There’s no snake-spit on that one.
“Aren’t big people funny
That they don’t want to play?
And some of ’em don’t like ice-cream —
I couldn’t be that way.
“They just sit round and talk and talk —
O’course their hands are clean.
But they make us wash ours all the time,
I couldn’t be that mean.
“No, honestly I couldn’t,
Could you? I’d sooner die.
We’ll dig some worms tomorrow
And go fishin’! Goo’-by!”
