Simmons Paint
can someone please explain this poetry?
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Walter Simmons
Edgar Lee Masters
My parents thought that I would be
As great as Edison or greater:
For as a boy I made balloons
And wondrous kites and toys with clocks
And little engines with tracks to run on
And telephones of cans and thread.
I played the cornet and painted pictures,
Modeled in clay and took the part
Of the villain in the “Octoroon.”
But then at twenty-one I married
And had to live, and so, to live
I learned the trade of making watches
And kept the jewelry store on the square,
Thinking, thinking, thinking, thinking,—
Not of business, but of the engine
I studied the calculus to build.
And all Spoon River watched and waited
To see it work, but it never worked.
And a few kind souls believed my genius
Was somehow hampered by the store.
It wasn’t true. The truth was this:
I didn’t have the brains.
...my parents thought I would be great/famous (like edison) so they invested in a bunch of toys and had me play music and put me in plays. But I married and had kids and became a watchmaker (obviously not famous) And he thinks of the engine he wanted to build (like edison) His engine didn't work because he wasn't smart, unlike what some people thought
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