Homework Excuses: Part One

Note to Reader:  These excuses may be used in school....for a small fee: no names, please!

HOMEWORK SOUP

I didn’t have anything to do this evening,

Besides my homework vile.

So I rounded up all my books and

Made them stand in single file.

I made them march past the pen stand blue

And dip themselves in ink.

Then I poured them into a cauldron

And stirred till their pages were pink.

I heated them up until they were burnt brown,

Then I dried them in the sun.

So the next time my teacher asks for them,

I’ll say, “Oh, my homework’s well done.”

- Vruta Gupte.

(No books were harmed during the production and imagination of this poem.  Thank you.)

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