[stylist] Overdue for Barbara, humorous poem

[Jacqueline Williams]

Remember your "thumb" poem that so cracked me up? This is probably why. It
is similar to the First Grade Primer I wrote in 2005 that was of the same
ilk. (Note the "Enrichment" words that you would never find in the first
grade. Cannibal would be your enrichment word.

This poem was not in my computer. I scanned it, and the columns would not
read right. So I re-typed it right in the e-mail, but when I was ready to
send it, in the middle of the spell check, the computer froze. I lost it
all. 

This time I am just pasting in the copy I made in my word documents. If it
is totally messed up  format wise, I guess I do not care. 

No spell check this time.

My laptop starts running hot, has lapses of function, and so I lay off
sometimes a day or two. I've stayed away for five days this time. Do you
suppose that the number of e-mails accumulated is why it malfunctions?
Overload effects me that way!

Incidentally, this was published in the Sandcutters, the quarterly of the AZ
State Poetry Society. There is no accounting for taste. I sent it in sort of
as a joke.

Jackie

 

First Grade Primer

 

I stubbed my toe.

I stubbed my toe upon a rock.

I was so mad, you know.

I was so mad I kicked a block.

My knee went out. I shouted out.

I screamed in pain.  T'was all in vain.  

Spot wouldn't come.  He thought me dumb.

I stubbed my toe.  I kicked a block.

My knee went out.  I shouted out.

Spot would not come.  I am so dumb. 

Oh, wait, dear Spot.  Please wait for me.

I'll learn. You'll see. Please wait for me.

We'll head for home.  You'll get your bone.

I turned to go-

I stubbed my toe.

 

Go back to the first line and study until you know the following words
automatically.

 

Enrichment words:  

screamed 

pain 

vain 

dumb 

shouted

 

Contractions:  

 

'Twas/it was 

 Wouldn't/ would not 

 I'll/ I will  

You'll/you will  

We'll/we will

 

Phonetic words: 

stub

toe 

upon 

rock 

mad  

kick  

block 

went 

out 

home 

bone 

turn

 

Sight words:  

know 

knee 

all 

come 

please 

learn

 

 

Jackie