Using My Head

Using My Head
By Paul McCann

I said to the teacher
I am a poor creature
my pen’s run out of ink.

I’m counting up my sums
with my fingers and thumbs
tell me what do you think ?

How can I write like then
with no pencil or pen,
all the things in my head .

i’d better just stay home
with the thoughts that I own
fast asleep in my be

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