Uncle Ezra’s Idee

“Don’t talk to me uv ‘up to date’,”        

     Said Uncle Ezra Pelham,

“The city folks are allus late

     Ef anyone should tell ‘em.”

“An’ then agin, it’s my idee,”

     Said Uncle Ezra, yawnin’,

“The man who’s up to date is he

     Who gits up in the mornin’.”

May 18, ‘09