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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AUNT SELINA, by CAROL HAYNES
First Line: When aunt selina comes to tea
Last Line: I hope she would not come again!
Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives
First Line: When aunt selina comes to tea
Last Line: I hope she would not come again!
Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives
When Aunt Selina comes to tea
She always makes them send for me,
And I must be polite and clean
And seldom heard, but always seen.
I must sit stiffly in my chair
As long as Aunt Selina's there.
But there are certain things I would
Ask Aunt Selina if I could.
I'd ask when she was small, like me,
If she had ever climbed a tree.
Or if she'd ever, ever gone
Without her shoes and stockings on
Where lovely puddles lay in rows
To let the mud squeege through her toes.
Or if she'd coasted on a sled,
Or learned to stand upon her head
And wave her feet -- and after that
I'd ask her how she got so fat.
These things I'd like to ask, and then --
I hope she would not come again!
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