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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=477726" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Lonesome</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">MOTHER's gone a-visitin' to spend a month er two,<br>An', oh, the house is lonesome ez a nest whose birds has flew<br>To other trees to build ag'in; the rooms seem jest so bare<br>That the echoes run like sperrits from the kitchen to the stair.<br>The shetters flap more lazy-like 'n what they used to do,<br>Sence mother's gone a-visitin' to spend a month er two.<br>We've killed the fattest chicken an' we've cooked her to a turn;<br>We've made the richest gravy, but I jest don't give a durn<br>Fur nothin' 'at I drink er eat, er nothin' 'at I see. <br>The food ain't got the pleasant taste it used to have to me.<br>They's somep'n' stickin' in my throat ez tight ez hardened glue,<br>Sence mother's gone a-visitin' to spend a month er two.<br>The hollyhocks air jest ez pink, they're double ones at that,<br>An' I wuz prouder of 'em than a baby of a cat.<br>But now I don't go near 'era, though they nod an' blush at me,<br>Fur they's somep'n' seems to gall me in their keerless sort o' glee<br>An' all their fren'ly noddin' an' their blushin' seems to say:<br>'You're putty lonesome, John, old boy, sence mother's gone away.'<br>The neighbors ain't so fren'ly ez it seems they'd ort to be;<br>They seem to be a-lookin' kinder sideways like at me, <br>A-kinder feared they'd tech me off ez ef I wuz a match,<br>An' all because 'at mother's gone an' I'm a-keepin' batch!<br>I'm shore I don't do nothin' worse 'n what I used to do<br>'Fore mother went a-visitin' to spend a month er two.<br>The sparrers ac's more fearsome like an' won't hop quite so near,<br>The cricket's chirp is sadder, an' the sky ain't ha'f so clear;<br>When ev'nin' comes, I set an' smoke tell my eyes begin to swim,<br>An' things aroun' commence to look all blurred an' faint an' dim.<br>Well, I guess I'll have to own up 'at I'm feelin' purty blue<br>Sence mother's gone a-visitin' to spend a month er two.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Paul+Laurence+Dunbar">Paul Laurence Dunbar</a><div class=q>
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An', oh, the house is lonesome ez a nest whose birds has flew
To other trees to build ag'in; the rooms seem jest so bare
That the echoes run like sperrits from the kitchen to the stair.
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