What was your favorite poem as a child?
I had so many, but the one that I remember my mom and I laughing about the most was called "ELETELEPHONY"
I'm sitting here with Volume #1 Childcraft, The How and Why Library, Poems and Rhymes, copyright 1972. (Took this book with me when I moved out because I am the world's greatest pack-rat.)
Pg. 224
Eletelephony
by Laura E. Richards
Once there was an elephant,
Who tried to use the telephant-
No! No! I mean an elephone
Who tried to use the telephone-
(Dear me! I am not certain quite
That even now I've got it right.)
Howe'er it was, he got his trunk
Entangled in the telephunk;
The more he tried to get it free,
the louder buzzed the telephee-
(I fear I'd better drop the song
Of elephop and telephong!)
(Well, it was hilarious when I was 3)
OK---- WHO'S NEXT?
I had so many, but the one that I remember my mom and I laughing about the most was called "ELETELEPHONY"
I'm sitting here with Volume #1 Childcraft, The How and Why Library, Poems and Rhymes, copyright 1972. (Took this book with me when I moved out because I am the world's greatest pack-rat.)
Pg. 224
Eletelephony
by Laura E. Richards
Once there was an elephant,
Who tried to use the telephant-
No! No! I mean an elephone
Who tried to use the telephone-
(Dear me! I am not certain quite
That even now I've got it right.)
Howe'er it was, he got his trunk
Entangled in the telephunk;
The more he tried to get it free,
the louder buzzed the telephee-
(I fear I'd better drop the song
Of elephop and telephong!)
(Well, it was hilarious when I was 3)
OK---- WHO'S NEXT?