Yesterday

 

The day before yesterday
I think I’ll go to school.
I think I’l take a walk
in the local swimming pool.

The T.V.’s broken
so I think I’ll watch the News.
I’ll be going out barefoot
in my sister’s shoes.

I don’t like her
so I call her my friend.
When I leave
I’ll start at the end.

from Michael Rosen’s Book of Nonsense (Hodder, 1998), © Michael Rosen 1998, used by permission of the author.

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