Yellow Butter (Monday Poem)

 by Mary Ann Hoberman

 

 

Yellow butter purple jelly red jam black bread

 

Spread it thick 

Say it quick

 

Yellow butter purple jelly red jam black bread

 

Spread it thicker

Say it quicker

 

Yellow butter purple jelly red jam black bread

 

 Now repeat it

While you eat it

 

Yellow butter purple jelly red jam black bread

 

Don't talk

With your mouth full!

 

 

from Forget-Me-Nots: Poems to Learn by Heart 

Selected by Mary Ann Hoberman

Little, Brown & Co, 2012