Reading Tom Sawyer Again Poem by Paolo Giuseppe Mazzarello

Reading Tom Sawyer Again

Rating: 5.0


My nephew Nick has the chicken pox and the time to read Tom Sawyer.
I gave him that that book and finally he's started his adventures.
However today I've taken his book for myself, lain down on the sofa.
For some hours I've been on the Mississippi banks with its steamers.
In the dusty courtyard there was Aunt Polly with her apron close to the fence.
Becky read the forbidden page of sex in the teacher's book, the broken page.
Tom offered himself as a guilty, it was in the nature of the things.
My reading isn't the same at that time! As a child I didn't know Tom.
Now I'm as Tom and love America with its wide spaces and people.
Becky is in the cave again and I know what's my homework.
In topic like this America doesn't give discounts.
Banks of Mississippi, adieu! Your chicken pox will soon heal, Nick.

Reading Tom Sawyer Again
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
"Nobody knows how lonely I got" (Elvis Presley)
In the picture: photo courtesy of the RCA Records Archive and Joseph A. Tunzi/ JAT Publishing.
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Little Hatila ;) 13 January 2009

very nice, i always like to read stories again.....10 Hataw

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Onelia Avelar 09 May 2008

Reading Tom Sawyer again :) is pleasant, but also reading this nice funny poem. Your nephew Nick with his chicken pox is like a personage from the book, really. Nice flashback to the childhood, thank you...

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Abha Sharma 06 May 2008

your literary topics are with a delicate realistic, modern flavour...and are quite amusing...so when are your reading huckleberry Finn...and Charles Dickens Again, ? ? I am waiting for the new flavour... **Abha**

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