Poetry Mondays: The British East India Company also dealt in crack.

An Except from Rudyard Kipling’s The Elephant’s Child

I Keep six honest serving-men:
(They taught me all I knew)
Their names are What and Where and When
And How and Why and Who.
I send them over land and sea,
I send them east and west;
But after they have worked for me,
I give them all a rest.

I let them rest from nine till five.
For I am busy then,
As well as breakfast, lunch, and tea,
For they are hungry men:
But different folk have different views:
I know a person small–
She keeps ten million serving-men,
Who get no rest at all!
She sends ‘em abroad on her own affairs,
From the second she opens her eyes–
One million Hows, two million Wheres,
And seven million Whys!

from Just So Stories for Little Children (1902)

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October 22, 2007 Written by: magnetic_rose | Filed Under Reading 

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One Response to “Poetry Mondays: The British East India Company also dealt in crack.”

  1. Mia on October 22nd, 2007 6:29 pm

    Pahabol! :D

    You Reading This, Be Ready

    Starting here, what do you want to remember?
    How sunlight creeps along a shining floor?
    What scent of old wood hovers, what softened
    sound from outside fills the air?

    Will you ever bring a better gift for the world
    than the breathing respect that you carry
    wherever you go right now? Are you waiting
    for time to show you some better thoughts?

    When you turn around, starting here, lift this
    new glimpse that you found; carry into evening
    all that you want from this day. This interval you spent
    reading or hearing this, keep it for life -

    What can anyone give you greater than now,
    starting here, right in this room, when you turn around?

    —William Stafford

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