This is an annotated copy of the poem. This poem is one of the poems that the IEB has prescribed for the 2020 Matric year. Annotations provide brief snippets of extra information.
nobody loses all the timeee cummings i had an uncle namedSol who was a born failure andnearly everybody said he should have goneinto vaudeville perhaps because my Uncle Sol could20th C American entertainment sing McCann He Was A Diver on Xmas Eve like Hell Itself whichmay or may not account for the fact that my UncleSol indulged in that possibly most inexcusableof all to use a highfalootin phrasepompous and pretentious luxuries that is or towit farming and beit needlesslyaddedmy Uncle Sol’s farmfailed because the chickensate the vegetables somy Uncle Sol had achicken farm till theskunks ate the chickens whenmy Uncle Solhad a skunk farm butthe skunks caught cold anddied and somy Uncle Sol imitated theskunks in a subtle manneror by drowning himself in the watertankbut somebody who’d given my Uncle Sol a VictorVictrola and records while he lived presented tohim upon the auspicious occasion of his decease afavourable scruptious not to mention splendiferous funeral withsplendid, wonderfultall boys in black gloves and flowers and everything andi remember we all cried like the Missouriwhen my Uncle Sol’s coffin lurched becausesomebody pressed a button(and down went
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