Dunno
Jeff Patry 1976 (Nebraska)
One day an acorn,
The next day, an oak.
One day a hero,
The next day, a goat.
One day a child,
The next an adult.
One day, an old man
Houses your soul.
And when the soul leaves you,
Where does it go?
Hey, you dumb f****r,
I'd have to be dead to know.
About this poem
You get aging, then you get some tribulations, then you get death, then you get philosophy. And it's pretty short.
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Written on January 01, 2003
Submitted by jpat6000 on January 17, 2023
Modified on March 05, 2023
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| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 253 |
| Words | 67 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
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