Some Crazy Kid'll Get Ya, If'n You Don't Watch Out.!!-(a pre-write)

Another shooting at a school in Minnesota...10 dead...
time to drag out the nursery rhyme reader
of perhaps all future classes to come.




A MID TWENTY FIRST CENTURY NURSERY RHYME READER
(Caution: some material may be disturbing to parents
contains mildly graphic descriptions of a normal school day's
activities among the dilating pupils of our educational
institutions.)

This book is dedicated to Kayla... the first
six year old to die in school....back in the year 2000.
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    DEDICATION

Come gather up your children
from classrooms,
and school gyms
cause the nursery rhymes
we loved so much
are tragically changing
these poems sound like
strange fairy tales
they're scary and they're grim
yet tragically they're coming true
in this world we're dying in!

                  Anonymous student-(C)-2052

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Wee Willie Winkle
runs through the school
upstairs and downstairs..
  because he isn't cool
  firing shots through doorways,
    at the faces Oh, so shocked
killing all the kids he hates
he's tired of being mocked

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Has Kindergarten now become
a place to guard the kinder
can kids feel safe in classrooms
  or does fear of dying...hinder
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Little Miss Muffet
told Billy to stuff it
  defeated, he scurried away
  then life he denied her
    pumping bullets inside her
    and blowing Miss Muffet away.

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A- is for Daddies A-K-47

B- is for bullets, your ticket to heaven

C- is for calling me names, gets you shot

D- is for dying, and long may you rot!


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Little Bo Peep
is losing sleep
with little chance to find it
cause today the School Bully
was gunned down....he's dead
and her very best friend was behind it

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30 days hath September
April...June...and November
all the rest have 31
unless someone brings a gun
then your counting days are done

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We're ringing round poor Rosie
who just got shot by Jodie
Crack! Crack!...BANG! BANG!
we all fall down!

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One
Plus
One
equals two
Two
plus
two
equals four
Four
Minus
two equals=
(two left demoted)
6 divided
into one
equals guns...
fully loaded

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Hippity-hop
to the corner shop
daddies buying a .44 magnum
a gun for him... and fun for me
If the kids get mean
I'll bag 'em.

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Rock a bye children
at the school hop
when the cops come
the shooting will stop
watch the doors break
as death pays a call
and down go the children
Teachers...and all.

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There was a little girl
and she had a little hole
right in the middle
of her forehead
because she was good
one boy misunderstood 
full of envy
he shot her
it's horrid

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Johnny and Julie
up in a tree
S.. H... A...K...I..N...G
first come the shots
from a boy
that she disparaged
then comes Johnny
in the undertaker's carriage

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A-E-I-O-U-
and sometimes Y
are vowels
school children try
I before E except after Y
but when hate puts an I before E
after D
then the bullets are sure to fly
though it always has been (A..E..I..O. and U )
sometimes we all must simply cry "Y."

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An' little orphan Annie says,
"Most school days make her blue,
when the playground chatter sputters
and the winds they go wooooooooo-oooooooooo."
"When the birdies stop their singing,
and the clouds get dark, and grey,
as your heart it starts to flutter
and your thoughts scream, "RUN AWAY!!!"
"Oh, you'd better mind your parents
and your teachers through the years,
and cherish them that love you
and dry each loser's tears,
and help those sad, and lonely kids
who cluster all about......
else some crazy kid'll get ya
If you don't Watch Out!!"
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~~~~~~~~~~~THE END~~~~~~~or is it?

with apologies to Riley for the use of his
Little Orphant Annie poem...(C)1894

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Author notes
this poem was written right after a six year old
was killed at her school in Michigan.
The other day a child was threatened at school with a gun.....
it could very well be the norm in just a few decades.
We need to make changes and soon!!

Written May 9th, 2000

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