Poetry

 **CRAZY DREAM**  Last night I had a crazy dream That I was teachin' school. My teachers had turned into kids, And I laid down the rules.

I gave 'em a hundred hist'ry books To memorize each night, And made 'em read 'em on their heads Without turnin' on the light.

I sent 'em on a field trip To the outskirts of Mongolia, And gave 'em an overnight assignment To grow a twenty-foot purple magnolia.

I asked 'em how many awful grades <span style="color: #008000; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; text-align: center;">Can cause how many tears? <span style="color: #008000; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; text-align: center;">And if they got one answer wrong, <span style="color: #008000; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; text-align: center;">I just hung 'em up by their ears.

<span style="color: #008000; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; text-align: center;">And when they talked and laughed in class, <span style="color: #008000; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; text-align: center;">I pinched 'em 'til they cried <span style="color: #008000; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; text-align: center;">Louder and louder--'til I woke up <span style="color: #008000; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; text-align: center;">Feelin' very satisfied.

<span style="color: #008000; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; text-align: center;">By Shel Silverstein

<span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; text-align: center;">**DON'T BRING CAMELS IN THE CLASSROOM** <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; text-align: center;">Don't bring camels in the classroom. <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; text-align: center;">Don't bring scorpions to school. <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; text-align: center;">Don't bring rhinos, rats, or reindeer. <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; text-align: center;">Don't bring mice or moose or mule. <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; text-align: center;">Pull your penguin off the playground. <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; text-align: center;">Put your python in a tree. <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; text-align: center;">Place your platypus wherever <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; text-align: center;">you think platypi should be. <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; text-align: center;">Lose your leopard and your lemur. <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; text-align: center;">Leave your llama and your leech. <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; text-align: center;">Take your tiger, toad, and toucan <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; text-align: center;">anywhere but where they teach. <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; text-align: center;">Send your wombat and your weasel <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; text-align: center;">with your wasp and wolverine. <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; text-align: center;">Hide your hedgehog and hyena <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; text-align: center;">where you're sure they won't be seen. <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; text-align: center;">Please get rid of your gorilla. <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; text-align: center;">Please kick out your kangaroo. <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; text-align: center;">No, the teacher didn't mean it <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; text-align: center;">when she called the class a "zoo."

<span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; text-align: center;"> By Kenn Nesbitt <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**MY DOG CHEWED UP MY HOMEWORK**

I'm glad to say my homework's done. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I finished it last night. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I've got it right here in this box. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">It's not a pretty sight. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">My dog chewed up my homework. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">He slobbered on it, too. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">So now my homework's ripped to shreds <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">and full of slimy goo. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">It isn't much to look at, <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">but I brought it anyway. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I'm going to dump it on your desk <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">if I don't get an A.

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">By Bruce Lansky <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; text-align: center;">