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Posted on July 9, 2016July 11, 2016 by thirdstoryies

Vacation 2

I Am Cherry Alive by Delmore Schwartz

“I am cherry alive,” the little girl sang.
“Each morning I am something new:
I am apple, I am plum, I am just as excited
As the boys who made the Hallowe’en bang:
I am tree, I am cat, I am blossom too:
When I like, if I like, I can be someone new,
Someone very old, a witch in a zoo:
I can be someone else whenever I think who,
And I want to be everything sometimes too:
And the peach has a pit and I know that too,
And I put it in along with everything
To make the grown-ups laugh whenever I sing:
And I sing: It is true; It is untrue;
I know, I know, the true is untrue,
The peach has a pit,
The pit has a peach:
And both may be wrong
When I sing my song,
But I don’t tell the grown-ups; because it is sad,
And I want them to laugh just like I do
Because they grew up
And forgot what they knew
And they are sure
I will forget it some day too.
They are wrong. They are wrong.
When I sang my song, I knew, I knew!
I am red, I am gold,
I am green, I am blue,
I will always be me,
I will always be new!”

…..

I am not a poet.
But if I were,
I would write about you and only you
and never run out of words.

Happy birthday, my sweet, sweet girl.

1 thought on “seven”

  1. Sue J. says:
    July 12, 2016 at 6:48 pm

    Lovely

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