Girls Can, Too!
by Lee Bennett Hopkins
Tony said: “Boys are better!
They can …
whack a ball, ride a bike with one hand
leap off a wall.”
I just listened
and when he was through, I laughed and said:
“Oh, yeah! Well, girls can, too!”
Then I leaped off the wall, and rode away
With his 200 baseball cards
I won that day.
No Girls Allowed
by Jack Prelutsky
When we’re playing tag and the girls want to play, we yell and we scream
and we chase them away.
When we’re playing stickball or racing our toys and the girls ask to
join, we say, “Only for boys.”
We play hide-and-go-seek and the girls wander near.
They say, “Please let us hide.” We pretend not to hear.
We don’t care for girls so we don’t let them in, we think that they’re
dumb— and besides, they might win.
Me
by Karla Kuskin
“My nose is blue, My teeth are green, My face is like a soup tureen. I
look just like a lima bean. I’m very, very lovely.
My feet are far too short And long.
My hands are left and right And wrong.
My voice is like the hippo’s song. I’m very, very,
Very, very, Very, very Lovely?”
To Be Answered in Our Next Issue
author unknown
When a great tree falls And people aren’t near, Does it make a noise If
no one can hear? And which came first, The hen or the egg?
This impractical question We ask and then beg. Some wise men say It’s
beyond their ken. Did anyone ever Ask the hen?
Homework
by Russell Hoban
Homework sits on top of Sunday, squashing Sunday flat. Homework has the
smell of Monday, homework’s very fat. Heavy books and piles of paper,
answers I don’t know. Sunday evening’s almost finished, now I’m going to
go Do my homework in the kitchen. Maybe just a snack, Then I’ll sit
right down and start as soon as I run back For some chocolate sandwich
cookies. Then I’ll really do All that homework in a minute. First I’ll
see what new Show they’ve got on television in the living room.
Everybody’s laughing there, but misery and gloom And a full refrigerator
are w’here I am at.
I’ll just have another sandwich. Homework’s very fat.
