Textbook Brown and Frown   

by Robert McDowell

 Robert McDowell reads 

Textbook Brown and Frown



in RealAudio format.
     

   
Your eyes are brown as a frown.
How brown can frowning be?
The brown you find in a coffee cup,
Or deep in the eye of a bee?

I never stared at a bee for so long
To know that brown was there.

Did you think it was green or blue,
Or limpid, anemic, fair?

I suppose I never thought it out;
The upstairs cupboard is bare.
But even so, we’re missing the point —
Where bees are concerned I just don’t care.

My brown eyes frown, you think.
Is frowning brown as a rule?

I cannot answer everything!
Why don’t you ask in school?

Whenever a question like that is asked
You’re treated like a dunce.
The teacher breaks his chalk on the board
And stares, dejected, at lunch.
 
  

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