There have been so many versions of Pick More Daises, authored and attributed to so many different people. When I first shared the poem on my website as a graduate student, I had read Benjamin Rossen, (2000) "
Who Would Pick More Daisies; A study of Plagiarism and Foolery on the Internet. Since,
Wist identified an even earlier published version by the same original author. To me, the plagiarism and foolery matter, but miss the most important point. People keep reading the poem and creating their own versions because it speaks to a deep truth inside each of us. So the version attributed to Nadine Stair will always have a special meaning to me.