AWFUL TREE POEM

I think that you shall never see
me write a poem about a tree
as long ago in grade school class
I needed to read a poem aloud to pass
when I took that famous Kilmer poem
and memorized the thing like my own
it came down to the day I read it aloud
the clamoring students gathered as a crowd
and I stumbled through mixing up the best
and they laughed me humbly back to my desk
scurrying angrily I grumbled back to my place
this poetry stuff is for the birds off in space

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