He ate one apple, then two pears,
Three
plums and, likely, unawares,
Four
strawberries, then what came next?
Five
oranges, as per the text.
Not
finished, there was chocolate cake,
An
ice cream cone and, no mistake,
A
pickle and Swiss cheese, a slice,
Another
of salami – nice!
A
lollipop, some cherry pie,
A
sausage and a cupcake; why
Continue?
For the story’s sake,
One
snack to go ‘fore stomach ache.
And
that would be, in Carle’s cool tellin’
One
fat slice of watermelon.
What
would follow would be brief –
Relief,
from munching on a leaf.
Eric
Carle, a kids’ lit thriller,
Wrote
The Hungry Caterpillar
More
than fifty years ago
And
every reader in the know
Should
feel forever in his debt
For
showing us, the best way yet,
That
life may take us for a spin
But
beauty waits for us within.
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