Ossie Moore and The D’s

Outstanding students had to recite

Sentences constructed from words that might

Sometimes give problems so the teacher would insist

Incessant revisions that would consist

Every boy creating sentences of their own

Making the words linked and never standing alone

Ossie Moore got up and the teacher said

One sentence with Deduct, Defense, Detail and Defeat from your head

Remembering what had happened just this morning past

Excitement came, for once he felt like the brightest in class

And he turned around that they all would see

Nothing more than his face smiling in glee

Didn’t want the moment to just slip by

Thirty boys before him failed and he was the last to try

He turned to the front to face the teacher again

Eagerly he blurted out his sentence from his brain

De duck that flew over de fence was mine to eat

So I jumped to hold de tail but catch it by de feet