Artifactish by Squeeky Fromm
There is a face, I do declare,
A face they say that isn’t there.
“It isn’t there”, is what they say.
Oh, how I wish it’d go away
I looked again, I had to see,
And it was smiling there at me.
As big as life on the Abstract,
Or is it just an artifact???
Go away, go away. And end this episode.
Go away, go away. Are you a Sekrit Code???
Oh, I am trying NOT to stare
And see the face that isn’t there.
“It isn’t there”, is what they say.
Oh, how I wish it’d go away!!!
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
Note: This poem is based on Antigonish by William Hughes Mearns. Wiki says Mearns is credited with the well-known rhyme, composed in 1899 as a song for a play he had written, called The Psyco-ed. The play was performed in 1910 and the poem was first published as “Antigonish” in 1922.
Antigonish
Yesterday upon the stair
I met a man who wasn’t there
He wasn’t there again today
Oh, how I wish he’d go away
When I came home last night at three
The man was waiting there for me
But when I looked around the hall
I couldn’t see him there at all!
Go away, go away, don’t you come back any more!
Go away, go away, and please don’t slam the door
Last night I saw upon the stair
A little man who wasn’t there
He wasn’t there again today
Oh, how I wish he’d go away