Flowers For Algernon

R: If you remember put some flowers on his grave

He was my little friend for all the comfort that he gave

He never called me Dummy he was always on my side

I was so very sorry when he died

1. His operation made him smart

He ran the maze so good

But always had some time to be my friend

We used to race and he would win

It always made me mad at him

But he would still be nice even then

2. And when my operation made

me smarter he was there

To show me what would happen next to me

It wasn't always in a book

I had to hurt and sometimes look

At sad things that I didn't want to see

3. And now the smartness goes away

And Algernon is dead

And all my friends are nice to me again

But when I am like Algernon

Asleep inside the dirt and gone

I wonder who will think about me then