His Favorite Season

“When the frost is on the pumpkin an’ the fodder’s in the shock” is a pleasant theme for poets,  both  the real  an’  the  mock,  but the punkin  season’s over,  an’  the  frost is  wholly  gone;  now  the robin’s on the gate-post   an’   the  bluebird’s  on the lawn. People  have  their  fav’rite  seasons, I hev  mine  like all  the  rest,  an’  it  ain’t in punkin  season  though  it’s pie is fur the best; what hits me  the best fur wea-ther  is  a meller  spring  time morn when the robin’s on the gate-post an’ the blue-bird’s on the lawn.

April 6, ‘09