I stuck my finger up my noseto see what it contained.I found a bunch of crazy thingsthat cannot be explained. I found a dozen rubber bands.I found a piece of string.I found my missing basketball.I found a playground swing. I found a giant pot of gold.I found a sailing boat.I found an ancient castlewith a […]
Bradley Bentley Baxter Bloomewould never, ever clean his room.He simply dropped things on the floorand left them there forevermore.And even if his parents yelled,complaining that his bedroom smelled,and told him, “Bradley Bentley Bloome,go get a bucket and a broomand bring them back and clean your room,”he just refused to pick things up.So every cord, or […]
I fell asleep in class today,as I was awfully bored.I laid my head upon my deskand closed my eyes and snored. I woke to find a piece of papersticking to my face.I’d slobbered on my textbooks,and my hair was a disgrace. My clothes were badly rumpled,and my eyes were glazed and red.My binder left a […]
I slipped on a banana peeland fell and hit my head.I slipped upon a patch of icewhich nearly killed me dead. I slipped upon a roller skateand tumbled into space.I slipped inside the bathtuband I landed on my face. I slipped upon the basement stairsand on the kitchen floor.I wish that I could stop myselffrom […]
My legs both understand me.My shoulders have my back.My arms are always on my side.My feet know I’m on track. My hands are both forgiving,and help me seize the day.My ears are awesome listeners.My eyes see things my way. My bottom is behind me.My hair sticks up for me.My fingers give me two thumbs up.My […]
Perhaps you shouldn’t read this story.It isn’t sweet and hunky-dory.It isn’t even just okay,or nice or kind in any way.In fact, it’s gruesome, grim, and gory,and all about a girl named Laurie. See, Laurie is a cannibal.She’ll eat no plant nor animal.She’ll eat no vegetable nor fruit,no leaf, no seed, no sprout, nor shoot.And if […]
Don’t ever dine with Frankenstein;He feasts on flaming turpentine.He chomps and chews on soles of shoes,and quaffs down quarts of oily ooze.At suppertime he’ll slurp some slime.He’s known to gnaw on gristly grime.His meals of mud and crispy crudwill curl your hair and chill your blood.His poison, pungent, putrid snacksmay cause you seizures and attacks.Your […]
“Snow day!”Fred said.“All play.Let’s sled!” “No school!Just snow.Way cool.Let’s go!” Fred ranin shed.Had plan.Got sled. “Go slow,”Mom said.“I know,”said Fred. Up hillwent Fred.Down hillFred sped. Sled streakedon past.Mom shrieked,“Too fast!” Snow blew.“Can’t see!”Fred flew.Hit tree. Sled bent.Fred’s headgot dent.Poor Fred. He cried.Now playsinsidesnow days. —Kenn Nesbitt
Did you know that trees can walkI found that out the other daythe jumped up and out of the groundand started to run and play They started to play tag,zooming up and down every street in town,with amazement they ran through forests and up hillsbefore they had to go back in the ground so when […]
