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  • Of course, to anyone who attended school prior to the 1960s this would sound familiar - schools used to make every pupil learn a long poem ask your parents or grandparents - they can probably still recite hiawatha or the likeand they stressed pensmenship much more than today.

    Csont and New Urbanism James Gurney 2009

  • i thought lyric poetry was anything that wasn't, like, the odyssey or the song of hiawatha...

    Sarah Gambito Lemon Hound 2009

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  • THE MODERN HIAWATHA

    He killed the noble Mudjokivis.

    Of the skin he made him mittens,

    Made them with the fur side inside,

    Made them with the skin side outside.

    He, to get the warm side inside,

    Put the inside skin side outside;

    He, to get the cold side outside,

    Put the warm side fur side inside.

    That's why he put the fur side inside,

    Why he put the skin side outside,

    Why he turned them inside outside.

    Anonymous.

    February 9, 2009