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Robert Jordan
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since 2007-02-07
Posts 392
Philadelphia Pa USA

0 posted 2007-07-04 12:50 PM


The egg man delivers eggs
to the holy sisters’ inn.  

They taste good,
and I like them.  

The sisters cook them up
different ways.  

There’s fried eggs
sunny side up,
scrambled eggs,
hard-boiled eggs,
and those deviled eggs
that I like so much.  

Yeah, that’s right,
they’re called deviled eggs,
and the sisters’ cook them up.  
You wouldn’t think they would,
would you?  

They’re my favorite,
but I try not to let on.

One day I get curious,
I work up the nerve,
and I ask the egg man
where the eggs come from.  
How are they made?  

The egg man just looks at me
as if he thinks I’m nuts.  

One of the sisters pulls me aside,
and explains about chickens.  
She tells me they lay the eggs.  

She pulls out a book,
and shows me a picture
of a chicken,
tells me chickens are
one of God’s creatures,
just like me.  

Eggs are what they lay,
so that they can have
baby chickens.  

I’d never seen anything
like a chicken before.  

You learn something every day.  
The sisters know a lot.  

Bobby

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hoot_owl_rn
Member Patricius
since 1999-07-05
Posts 10750
Glen Hope, PA USA
1 posted 2007-07-04 08:23 AM


What a saga you have recorded here for posterity. We hosted some fresh air children ( here in the boonies where I live ) back when I was a child. I'll never forget how excited they were to see the livestock at the county fair. It felt strange to me spending a lot of time at the farm my brothers all worked on how someone could get so excited over a pig or a cow until my parents explained to me that these children had never seen one before except perhaps in books
Ruth

Robert Jordan
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since 2007-02-07
Posts 392
Philadelphia Pa USA
2 posted 2007-07-04 11:00 AM


Ruth,

Very true Hon, that's the way it was.  Of course, your "fresh air kids" probably knew some things that were a mystery to you, out there on the farm.  That's the way it is with kids, it takes a long time to learn everything.

Bobby

JamesMichael
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since 1999-11-16
Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA
3 posted 2007-07-04 05:07 PM


Enjoyed...this plays out for each new generation...James
Robert Jordan
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since 2007-02-07
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Philadelphia Pa USA
4 posted 2007-07-04 07:07 PM


James,

That's very true.  Everything gets disgovered over and over again.

Bobby


paullallady
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since 2007-04-03
Posts 262
Michigan
5 posted 2007-07-04 11:38 PM


a wonderful memory, a wonderful lesson.
Robert Jordan
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since 2007-02-07
Posts 392
Philadelphia Pa USA
6 posted 2007-07-05 10:18 AM


Paullallady,

Thanks dear, I'm very pleased you enjoyed the poem.

Bobby

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