Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, EXCUSES, by BURGES JOHNSON


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First Line: Sometimes when I'm special naughty
Last Line: Just how bad I was!)
Subject(s): Children; Discipline; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood


Sometimes when I'm special naughty
In some bran'-new way,
An' my sister an' the nurse
Only get me actin' worse,
Daddy's told, an' when I'm caught, he
Asks what I've to say.

Daddy has some special uses
For a slipper he
Keeps upon his study shelf,
So I start to 'scuse myself,
An' I think up lots of 'scuses
Quickly as can be!

Daddy coughs, an' then confesses
That sometimes he does
P'raps misjudge me by mistake,
Then he gives my hand a shake.
(But I sometimes think he guesses
Just how bad I was!)





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