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All My Great Excuses

By kenn nesbitt.

I started on my homework but my pen ran out of ink. My hamster ate my homework. My computer’s on the blink.

I accidentally dropped it in the soup my mom was cooking. My brother flushed it down the toilet when I wasn’t looking.

My mother ran my homework through the washer and the dryer. An airplane crashed into our house. My homework caught on fire.

Tornadoes blew my notes away. Volcanoes struck our town. My notes were taken hostage by an evil killer clown.

Some aliens abducted me. I had a shark attack. A pirate swiped my homework and refused to give it back.

I worked on these excuses so darned long my teacher said, “I think you’ll find it’s easier to do the work instead.”

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All My Great Excuses

By kenn nesbitt.

I started on my homework, but my pen ran out of ink… My hamster ate my homework… My computer's on the blink…

I tripped and dropped my homework in the soup my mom was cooking… My brother flushed it down the toilet when I wasn't looking…

My mother ran my homework through the washer and the dryer… An airplane crashed into our house… My homework caught on fire…

Tornadoes blew my notes away… Volcanoes rocked our town… My books were taken hostage by an evil killer clown…

Some aliens abducted me… I had a shark attack… A pirate swiped my homework and refused to give it back…

I worked on these excuses so darned long my teacher said, "I think you'll find it's easier to do the work instead."

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My Computer Ate My Homework

My computer ate my homework. Yes, it’s troublesome, but true. Though it didn’t gnaw or nibble and it didn’t chomp or chew.

It digested it completely. It consumed my homework whole, when I pressed the Shift and Enter keys instead of Shift-Control.

It devoured my hours of typing, every picture, chart and graph, and it left me most unsettled when I thought I heard it laugh.

I would guess it was a virus, or it could have been a worm, that deleted every bit but didn’t prompt me to confirm.

I suppose I might have pressed Escape instead of pressing Save, but, regardless, my computer now will never misbehave.

For I found a good solution and I smiled to hear the crash, when I chucked it out the window and it landed in the trash.

  — Kenn Nesbitt

Copyright © 2005. All Rights Reserved. From When the Teacher Isn't Looking: and Other Funny School Poems . Running Press . Reprinted by permission of the author.

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From when the teacher isn't looking: and other funny school poems.

Students and teachers will roar as Kenn Nesbitt pokes fun at silly school topics with dozens of wacky poems.

Who knew school lunches and detention could be so funny? Kenn Nesbitt, that’s who! Do you attend a school like the one Kenn Nesbitt describes in this hysterically funny collection of poems? There’s a frenzied food fight in the cafeteria. For show-and-tell, kids burp the ABCs. Recently, “pet days” have been banned (and for good reason). And the funniest things happen when the teacher isn’t looking. Kids and teachers rate these rhymes A+ (and you will, too).

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Former Children’s Poet Laureate (2013-15) Kenn Nesbitt is the author of many books for kids, including Kiss, Kiss Good Night , My Hippo Has the Hiccups , My Cat Knows Karate , and many others. His poems have appeared in numerous bestselling anthologies, including every book in the popular Kids Pick the Funniest Poems series, and anthologies with nearly two million copies in print. His work has been published in hundreds of school textbooks around the world, as well as national television programs, and numerous children’s magazines. Kenn travels the world, visiting more than 60 schools each year, sharing his wacky brand of poetry with kids everywhere, and helping to create a new generation of poetry lovers. His website, poetry4kids.com , is the most visited children’s poetry website on the Internet.

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