Greetings and welcome to today's random thought.
My daughter is really into books lately. My wife has taught her to read and although she it not quite past the Bob Books, she is doing pretty good for a 4 year old. She really likes any book about animals. During the football game yesterday I was looking through a particularly detailed books on cats. I had to point out the pumas, leopards, ocelots and panthers (and many, many more).
Today the wife and daughter made another trip to the library and came home with "Antarctic Antics: A Book Of Penguin Poems" by Judy Sierra. The wife suggested I read one particular poem. Here it is...
It's been one whole hour since I ate.
Why is my mother always late?
While you and Mom procrastinate.
I might become a featherweight.
You know what I'd appreciate?
Cough it up, Dad. Regurgitate.
The poem is quite simple. All the end words rhyme like a good poem should. But seriously, how did this get into the book? Did they need one more page or two to meet some sort of minimum criteria for book length? This also begs the question, "Were there poems that did NOT make the criteria for the book?" If we saw the ones left out of the book would we find the following...?
I wonder what it would be like to be a species,
That did not take the time to eat their own feces?
I'm telling you, I should write a book of poems myself.
Thanks for reading my Random Thoughts.
Jon
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