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Prickled Pickles Don't Smile

By Nikki Giovanni

 

Never tickle

A prickled pickle

Cause prickled pickles

Don't smile.

 

Never goad

A loaded toad

When he has to walk

A whole mile.

 

Froggies go courting

With weather reporting

That indicates

There are no snows.

 

But always remember

The month of December

Is very hard

On your nose.

 


Poem from a collection of poems copied by the Artis children in 2003. Originally from a book on African Poetry.


Page created June16, 2008. Anne Pemberton. Updated Wednesday, September 23, 2009 . AP.

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