Why?

O, why are freight cars painted red,

     And why are blue skies blue?

And why do horses have four legs,

     And people only two?

And why are pies baked circular

     While bread is fashioned square?

And why are women’s faces smooth

     While men’s are thick with hair?

And why is grass forever green,

     And water always wet?

And why do chickens always roost

     As high as they can get?

And why do dogs bark at the moon,

     And why do roosters crow?

And why do poets write like this?

     I’d really like to know?

Dec. 20, 1912