One Two One Two

The World Is Round

Close your eyes and count one two

open your eyes and count one two 

and then green would not be blue. 

So Rose began counting one two one two 

and she knew that she was counting one two one two 

and so her eyes were blue although her name was Rose. 

Of course her eyes were blue 

even though her name was Rose. 

That is the reason she always did prefer blue 

because her eyes were blue. 

And she had two eyes and each one 

of her two eyes was blue, one two one two.

~ from Gertrude Stein’s children’s book, The World Is Round