Counting the Mad

Donald Justice

 

This one was put in a jacket,

This one was sent home,

This one was given bread and meat

But would eat none,

And this one cried No No No No

All day long

 

This one looked at the window

As though it were a wall,

This one saw things that were not there,

This one things that were,

And this one cried No No No No

All day long

 

This one thought himself a bird

This one a dog,

And this one thought himself a man,

An ordinary man,

And cried and cried No No No No

All day long.