I am looking for a poem that tells about how a native Indian provided moccasins for a little frontiers girl - "She ate her simple meal and she drank her basin when there came a tall dark shadow that was bent by the summers sun...
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It's called a "nonsense verse" making use of extreme polar opposites. A few variations of this poem exists. Here is one:
One bright morning in the middle of the night,Two dead boys got up to fight.Back-to-back they faced one another,Drew their swords and shot each other.One was blind and the other couldn't see,So they chose a dummy for a referee.A blind man went to see fair play,A dmb man went to shout "hooray!"A deaf policeman heard the noise,And came and killed those two dead boys.A paralyzed donkey walking by,Kicked the copper in the eye,Sent him through a rubber wall,Into a dry ditch and drowned them all.(If you don't believe this lie is true,Ask the blind man -- he saw it too!)
This was published in Poems, 1940-1953. You'll probably have to buy the book and type in the texts. There's plenty going for 99cents + shipping in the US.
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