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
This is another poem that's somehow passed me by, yet it provides one with a marked clout on its initial reading.
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