Thursday, May 11, 2006

Poetry

Clayton came in yesterday with a poem to read to me; Who says romance is dead?


Too Many Daves
Did I ever tell you that Mrs. McCave
Had twenty-three sons and she named them all Dave?

Well, she did. And that wasn't a smart thing to do.
You see, when she wants one and calls out "yoo-Hoo!
Come into the house, Dave!" she doesn't get one.
All twenty-three Daves of hers come on the run!

This makes thigs quite difficult at the McCaves'
As you can imagine, with so many Daves.
And often she wishes that, when they were born,
She had named one of them Bodkin Van Horn
And one of them Hoos-Foos. And one of them Snimm.
And one of them Hot-Shot. And One Sunny Jim.
And one of them Shadrack. And one of them Blinky.
And one of them Stuffy. And one of them Stinkey.
Another one Putt-Putt. Another one Moon Face.
Another one Marvin O'Gravel Balloon Face.
And one of them Ziggy. and One Soggy Muff.
One Buffalo Bill. And one Biffalo Buff.
Adn one of them Sneepy. and One Weepy Weed.
And one Paris Garters. and one Harris Tweed.
And one of them Sir Michael Carmichael Zutt
And one of them Oliver Boliver Butt
And one of them Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate...
But she didn't do it. And now its too late

-Dr. Seuss

3 Comments:

greenemama said...

leave it to clayton.

henry loves that book -- he likes the story about the pants. . .

6:07 PM  
Mark said...

There's a firm belief at The Legal Pad that one of the many reasons Clayton married you was because you would listen to his poems all the way through. You rock.

7:33 PM  
prairie girl said...

That is sooo romantic....now ask Clayton about the Daves in his life!

5:27 AM  

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