Show n HOMESICK by DOUGLAS MALLOCH I 1 THOUGHT that homesick meant to be away from home across the sea or way off on a railroad train to manitoba or to maine I 1 thought that homesick was to leave the place you live and grieve and grieve I 1 thought you really had to roam that homesick meant away from home cut here I 1 am in my own bed my own chintz curtains overhead my onn bright carpet on the floor my own red rocker by the door outside I 1 see the same green grass outside I 1 see the neighbors pass and yet im just the that anybody ever guessed you see aunt hollys talen worse and so they left me with a nurse and kissed me twice and said bo good hurried as fast as people could when some one brought a telegram and they re away and here I 1 am and her bats gone and so Is bis and now I 1 know what homesick Is for homesick isn t being far across the sea like some folks are it isn t when you re east or west you really get the home sickest its when you re home but home like this and well when lots of things you miss it s when you re home like me today and mother and father miles away EX 1928 douglad malloch |