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Alibis
December 21, 2015
The teachers wanna eat my soul,
My face is stuck to the cereal bowl.
My eyes and limbs are very heavy,
I think I'll fall into the levee.
The bus will crash into a tree,
Imagine all the things to happen to me!
I'll trip and stumble down the stairs,
I'll get attacked by dancing bears.
You'll be bummed when I am gone away,
I feel my face starting to decay!
When I'm in school, I'll just faint,
'Cuz I drank a gallon of lead paint!
Please don't let me go to school,
That would be so very cruel.
© Lucienne B., Parkland, FL
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This piece is one of my favorite poems. I was inspired by Shel Silverstein's "Sick" and mimiced his rythm of his poem. I think it is a very humorous depiction of a young child creating creative and absurd alibis to excuse himself from school. I believe we all have experienced a day where we just did not want to go to school or work.