<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=546887" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Bill's Son Joe</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Bill wishes his son had been a well known Sportsman<br>My son's a poet you never hear him say<br>As if that is something to be ashamed of<br>'Tis a strange World that we live in today.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Young Joe has no interest in sports or football<br>He'd rather go to the park by the bay<br>And watch the seagulls by the park bench tables<br>Squabble for scraps of food the picknickers throw away.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Joe is nineteen he doesn't have sisters or brothers<br>A fine young poet with words he has a way<br>His Nature poems original and special<br>That's what the poetry critics of him say.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The other fathers talk of their sons sporting prowess<br>My son ran well, my son played a fine game<br>But Bill he never talks about his son Joe<br>As if writing poetry is a thing of shame.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As if writing poetry is for women only<br>The redneck father has a cultured son<br>He doesn't feel proud that his son is a good poet<br>And that a prestigious poetry prize he's won.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Bill son Joe is a poet of rare talent<br>With which the father he is not impressed at all<br>He'd much prefer that he were a good sportsman<br>Good at athletics, boxing or football</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Francis+Duggan">Francis Duggan</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=546887" data-title="Bill's Son Joe de Francis Duggan" data-description="Bill wishes his son had been a well known Sportsman My son's a poet you never hear him say As if that is something to be ashamed of 'Tis a strange World that we live in today. Young Joe has no interest in sports or football He'd rather go to the ..."></div> </div> </div>

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