Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, A KIDDIE'S DREAM, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS


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A KIDDIE'S DREAM, by                    
First Line: A kiddie dreamed that a billy goat
Last Line: Can be wrecked the same as pickle boats.
Subject(s): Children; Dreams; Night; Silence; Childhood; Nightmares; Bedtime


A Kiddie dreamed that a Billy Goat
Butted and captured the Pickle Boat;
Kiddies with pennies around the Lake
When they met the boat cried, "For Heaven's sake!"

Canned goods and candies were on the floor;
Wilcox peered out from the cooler door;
Mothers who came with their little flocks
Went scurrying home from off the docks.

Panic was reigning 'most everywhere;
Cries from the Kiddies were on the air;
Fathers with guns ran along the shore
Shooting and hollering more and more.

When brave men and true captured the Goat
They fired some bullets down his throat;
The Pickle Boat Man was almost dead;
"Is the Butter gone?" he faintly said.

"He's eaten the labels from off our cans;
He's butted the covers from off our hams!
Take him away, tie him with a chain—
Don't ever let him get loose again."

It sure was a nightmare of a dream
And this is the moral it would seem,—
The internal parts of Kids and Goats
Can be wrecked the same as Pickle Boats.





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