Sonnets Of A Budding Bard

LINES WROTE IN SCHOOL WHILST I SHOULDST HAVE BEEN STUDYIN’ MY LESSON

I’ve just about madest up my mind to be A poet such as Shakespeare and the rest Of them big literary gents, and dressed In velvet clothes, write up the things I see In some grand style to show that Browning he Hast been done up! And when plain folks request My autograph, then, throwin’ out my chest, I’llst make them wish that they wast great like me!

I’m tired dwellin’ midst surroundin’s where Cheap things art always waitin’ to be done: I’dst rather loaf and dream and have long hair Like all great poets dost: and, oh! what fun, To dash off lays and sell them, then and there, Whenever I’llst be needin’ any “mon.”