Anthology 38 - I am a hunchback

This week's poem is by that Scots literary icon, Robert Louis Stevenson. The author of Treasure Island, Kidnapped and a A Child's Garden of Verse also wrote this poem which is much more than the ditty it may appear at a casual reading:

I am a hunchback by Robert Louis Stevenson

I am a hunchback, yellow faced,

A hateful sight to see,

'Tis all that other men can do

To pass and let me be.

I am a woman, my hair is white,

I was a darkhaired lass;

The gin dances in my head,

I stumble as I pass.

I am a man that God made at first,

And teachers tried to harm,

Here! hunchback take my friendly hand,

Good woman, take my arm.

Andrew