Stevie Smith

Here you will find the Poem Tenuous and Precarious of poet Stevie Smith

Tenuous and Precarious

Tenuous and Precarious
Were my guardians,
Precarious and Tenuous,
Two Romans. 

My father was Hazardous,
Hazardous
Dear old man,
Three Romans. 

There was my brother Spurious,
Spurious Posthumous,
Spurious was Spurious,
Was four Romans. 

My husband was Perfidious,
He was Perfidious
Five Romans.
Surreptitious, our son,
Was Surreptitious,
He was six Romans. 

Our cat Tedious
Still lives,
Count not Tedious
Yet. 

My name is Finis,
Finis, Finis,
I am Finis,
Six, five, four, three, two,
One Roman,
Finis.