Sage recites The Grocer's Children poem by Herbert Scott

Herbert Scott's The Grocer's Children 1976
The grocer's children
eat day-old bread,
moldy cakes and cheese,
soft black bananas
on stale shredded wheat,
weeviled rice, their plates
heaped high with wilted
greens, bruised fruit,
surprise treats
from unlabeled cans,
tainted meat.
The grocer's children
never go hungry

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[misanthrope8]

I couldn't understand most of what she was saying.

[xenakiddle]

@misanthrope8 Follow along with the text. Her enunciation in nearly everay word is very good. The grocer's children eat day-old bread, moldy cakes and cheese, soft black bananas on stale shredded wheat, weeviled rice, their plates heaped high with wilted greens, bruised fruit, surprise treats from unlabeled cans, tainted meat. The grocer's children never go hungry

[baggagequeen]

Omg she's so adorable!

[xenakiddle]

Thank you so much baggagequeen.

[Anacyr]

You daughter is very smart...

She's adorable...

I have attended almost all her videos and I don't tire of it ...

[xenakiddle]

Thank you Anacyr.

This one of The Grocer's Children is actually my favorite, in how she delivers the lines. The first time she recited it, without the camera on, afterward, she paused, looked down a bit and then said, "That's sad."

[puppycheesecup17]

very cute those two words describe her :)

[2sage2]

we have the same name =]

[lpavvy]

She is one of the cutest little girls I've ever seen! :)