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Poetry Break 9

Douglas Florian

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What the Garbage Truck Ate for Breakfast Today

by Douglas Florian

 

Two turkey bones

A cracked-up clock,

Four orange peels

A soiled sock.

Tuesday’s news

Aluminum foil,

Seven quarts

Of motor oil.

Thirty prune pits

Dirty diapers,

A pair of broken

Windshield wipers.

An old kazoo

A moldy poster,

A 1967 toaster.

A tattered girdle

A turtleneck…

And never had to pay the check.

 

Bing Bang Boing, New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1994

Introduction
I though this was a very funny poem and instead of a garbage truck it reminded me of a goat.
 
Expansion
You can pair this book with the book, I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly,(there are many different versions of this).
Using magazines have the children cut out various objects and draw a monster eating the objects. Have the children make their own funny poem. 
Make columns and have the children pair up rhymning words, example sock-clock.
This poem also lends itself to illustrations. The  students can pick a favorite line and illustrate it and make a short book.

Lee Bennett Hopkins