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<span style="font-weight: bold">All Week</span>
Picnic and garden party
school concert
church concert
cricket match -
you watch only from behind
the counter -
learning to count
without using a finger.
No bird bush
nor wheel
nor race
nor cart
nor swimming in the river
no moonlight walk
only hear your
friends talk
and they laugh
because you 'born and grow'
behind the counter.
<span style="font-style: italic">Easton Lee. 1998. <span style="text-decoration: underline">From Behind the counter: Poems from a rural Jamaican experience</span>. Randle Publishers</span>
More about Easton Lee from National Library of Jamaica her: Look under L
Picnic and garden party
school concert
church concert
cricket match -
you watch only from behind
the counter -
learning to count
without using a finger.
No bird bush
nor wheel
nor race
nor cart
nor swimming in the river
no moonlight walk
only hear your
friends talk
and they laugh
because you 'born and grow'
behind the counter.
<span style="font-style: italic">Easton Lee. 1998. <span style="text-decoration: underline">From Behind the counter: Poems from a rural Jamaican experience</span>. Randle Publishers</span>
More about Easton Lee from National Library of Jamaica her: Look under L