POEM

If You Can’t Eat

If you can’t eat you got to

Smoke and we ain’t got

Nothing to smoke; come on kid

Let’s go to sleep.

If you can’t smoke you got to

Sing and we ain’t got

Nothing to sing; come on kid

Let’s go to sleep.

If you can’t sing you got to

die and we ain’t got

Nothing to die; come on kid

Let’s go to sleep.

If you can’t die you got to

dream and we ain’t got

Nothing to dream; come on kid

Let’s go to sleep.

1. Language meaning        : The poem tells about suffering and hunger.

                                          Here a parent is trying to soot he a hungry child to sleep         throught four different ways. Smoke, sing, die and dream. But they have never been given a chance even to dream.

2. Messages                       : “Be patient and make effort”.

3. This poem uses simple language. There are modal auxiliary 9can), it conditional and impermative.

This poem is easy for Junior High School.