Bread & Jam

 Some days are bread and jam days.  Surely we all have them . . . you know the types of days I mean."I wish I was a poet like the men that write in booksThe poems that we have to learn on valleys, hills an' brooks;I'd write of things that children like an' know an' understand,An' when the kids recited them the folks would call them grand.If I'd been born a Whittier, instead of what I am,