Vacation is dribbling away. Shackleton is doing a poetry unit and is supposed to read 125 poems before returning to school in just a few more days . You've met Shack, right? It's not true that he can't read, but I think he would rather get a cavity filled than read more than three words at a clip. So far, with only a few days left, we have read four poems. Well, five, if you count the one I just wrote (and illustrated!) for him.
A Poem for Shackleton
I think that I shall never see
A Poem as lovely
As TV.
With apologies to William Carlos Williams,
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upon
this Budlight
tall-boy
encased in
condensation
beside my computer.
Ta,Da!
Now you've got six.
Cheers.
Wonderful snap, great poem.
ReplyDeleteHave you introduced Shack to the likes of Lear and Belloc?
A ticket to hear DS read - I hope you're coming
R - Watch out William Carlos Williams! Thanks for your contribution.
ReplyDeleteLulu - Thanks for those suggestions. I will see if I can scare up some good poems from them. I sent you an email about the DS thing...
I think 125 poems is nuts! I would guess most adults have never read that many. Is he in a genius school?? :<)
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