Sandy Star and Willie Gee
Sandy Star and Willie Gee, Count 'em two, you make 'em three: Pluck the man and boy apart And you'll see into my heart.
William Stanley Braithwaite
Sandy Star and Willie Gee, Count 'em two, you make 'em three: Pluck the man and boy apart And you'll see into my heart.
Sandy Star and Willie Gee sound like two separate people, but the speaker immediately makes the arithmetic strange: count them as two and you’ll end up with three. Something extra seems to be born between them—perhaps the speaker himself. The second couplet deepens the riddle.
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