I Like My Nose
I’m glad that my nose
points down to my toes,
and doesn’t point up to the sky.
For now I can sneeze
just as much as I please,
without getting goo in my eye.
— Bruce Lansky
Copyright © 2000. All Rights Reserved. From If Pigs Could Fly: and Other Deep Thoughts. Running Press. Reprinted by permission of the author.
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From If Pigs Could Fly: and Other Deep Thoughts
If Pigs Could Fly… and Other Deep Thoughts is a collection of Bruce Lansky’s own hilarious poems about everything kids are concerned with, including: smelly diapers, chubby relatives, toothless grandmas, dirty socks, impolite dogs, burping babies, bad hair days and more. The poems in this book have been tested on over 1,000 schoolchildren and their teachers so that only the most giggle-packed poems are included.