Broccoli for Breakfast
Broccoli for breakfast.Broccoli for lunch.
Broccoli that's tender.
Broccoli with crunch.
Broccoli for dinner.
Broccoli for snacks.
Broccoli in boxes
and baskets and sacks.
Broccoli for weeks and
for months and for years.
It's up to my eyeballs.
It's up to my ears!
I used to like broccoli
but now, I'm afraid,
it's beauty, at best,
is beginning to fade.
It's lacking in luster.
It's lost all it's charm.
But that's how it goes
on a broccoli farm.
Today I Had a Problem
Today I had a problemwhen I tried to make my bed.
My blankets and my comforter
got wrapped around my head.
I went to fluff the pillows
but the pillow cover tore,
and feathers flew all over
as I stumbled 'round the floor.
I accidentally grabbed the sheets
and pulled them as I fell.
I have to say, it seems
my day's not starting off too well.
I tripped upon a pillowcase
and landed in a heap.
Good grief! That's it! I'm staying here
and going back to sleep!
--Kenn Nesbitt
Polar Bowling
It used to be that polar bearswent bowling, just for grins,
with snowballs for their bowling balls
and penguins as the pins.
The bears would have a blast
with all the snowballs that they threw.
The penguins weren't as happy;
that's the only time they flew.
So penguins all moved south and now
they're at the other pole.
Well, wouldn't you move far away
if bears used you to bowl?
--Kenn Nesbitt
I Went to the Doctor
I went to the doctorall covered in bumps.
He said "you've got chicken pox,
measles and mumps."
He said "you've got whooping cough,
tetanus, rubella,
digestive dysfunction
from green salmonella.
"You've got halitosis
and elephantitis.
You've also got athletes foot
and laryngitis.
"You're covered with head lice,
mosquitoes and fleas.
You've even got pink-eye
and mad cow disease.
"What's more you've got cooties,
a cold and the flu,
but don't be upset;
I know just what to do."
He told me "I promise
this won't hurt a bit,"
then grabbed a syringe
like a barbeque spit.
He made me bend over
the seat of my chair
then plunged that big needle
in my you-know-where.
So now I'm all cured
of my cooties and fleas,
my whooping cough, measles
and mad cow disease.
He cured me of every last
sniffle and bump,
and now I'm all better
except for my rump.
--Kenn Nesbitt
An Ordinary Day
There's a dolphin on my doorstep.It's an ordinary day.
He's delivering the paper
in his ordinary way.
There's a bison in my bathtub
singing ordinary songs,
and some hippos having ordinary
hippo sing-alongs.
In the pantry there's a penguin
painting ordinary scenes
of opposums in their ordinary
orange submarines.
There's an ordinary rhino
racing up and down the stairs,
chasing ordinary chimpanzees
and ordinary bears.
In the living room are llamas
dancing ordinary jigs,
like a dozen rather ordinary
llama whirigigs.
It's an ordinary day for me;
I promise you it's true.
And I hope your day is simply
extra ordinary too.
--Kenn Nesbitt