Les premières lignes / the first lines :

“I could

If I wanted

Tell Mama and Papa that I won’t go.

I won’t go, I’ll say,

To a new house,

To the new place,

To a land I’ve never seen.”

Contenu / content :

The narrator, a young girl lives in the USA and her family has decided to sell their farm and move to the Western coast. She finds it difficult to leave the place, her life there and the people she knows…