Logs and Dogs

A few weeks ago Kate and I trucked off to the library to sign up for the summer reading program. We were each given a light blue bingo card with several reading activities including things like "read a book about dinosaurs" and "read an alphabet book" for Kate and "read a classic" and "listen to an audio book" for me. Kate has already finished her card and cashed in her (somewhat eaten) card for a brand new board book. My card is taking a little longer. As part of our reading, I checked out some poetry books to read aloud to Kate. These are my two favorite poems we've read so far. They are from My Dog is a Carrot by John Hegley, a book of children's poetry. Enjoy.

A Comparison of logs and dogs

both are very popular at Christmas

but it is not generally considered cruel

to abandon a log

and dogs are rarely used as fuel

The emergensea

The octopus awoke one morning and wondered

what rhyme it was.

Looking at his alarm-clocktopus

he saw that it had stopped

and it was time to stop having a rest

and get himself dressed.

On every octofoot

he put

and octosocktopus

but in his hurry, one foot got put

not into an octosocktopus

but into an electric outlet

and the octopus got a nasty electric shocktopus

and had to call the octodoctopus

who couldn't get it

to give any help or medicine

because the door was loctopus.

The octopus couldn't move, being in a state of

octoshocktopus

so the octodoctopus bashed the door

to the floor

and the cure was as simple as could be:

a nice refresting cup of

seawater.