Have a Goat Day, or, Kids on the Nibble
A sun snapping day
fills up
spreads out
hurry hurray
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run j mp boun ing
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hours of play
hands become hooves
clo ven heads
sprout small horns
so many supple sillies
giddy fillies
frisk rollick cavort
leaping at laundry
running from wool-ves
they natter and neigh in a specially
mis-chie-vous goateed way
ding gong-ong- ong- ong- ong
dinner call for the drove
clink-a-ling
clatter up clip
clop stairs
snap clapping for chomps
spout lips out
pluck up al-fal-
fa sprouts in a bowl
all fall for
alfa falfa
nibble chomp shout
all very good falfa
not a doubt pull lips
back yes all so smiley
bared incisors
flash crunch
crop
carrots cukes kohlrabi
crunk-a-chunk crop-a-munch-bunch
graze greens please
rocket mizuna
buttercrunch bibb
spoon boats of dressed groats
quinoa kasha oats
champ springy
plump grain roundabout slowly
again and again
molars grind
cool iceberg leaves
attention drifts
quiet filly sillies ruminate
wondering
what to bite next
why sample the napkins
gnaw on the straws
just simply because
kids are on the neigh nong nibble
on the trick tock tickle
riddle me giggle
for hours and hours
green blue and glorious
sonorous roarious
rustle and tussle
hulla bulla bam boo
until there’s a
s
l
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pinch pink blue
punch roar you hulla
me bulla
bam too boo
butt
snap bite . . .
boo bam bulla hulla tussle
not quite fight
Hey hey hey
That’s enough now
Mama says
time for you all to
break up your horse
play hit
the hay don’t you nay
my say
listen now care fully
hoof on up to your goat
beds stopping
only real quick to shine
your teeth
you know how
use that brush on a stick
plus a dab of pepper
mint polish
then buck on
under your eider
down fall deep
my beauteous billies
into dreams and sleep
hurry now my nimble nannies
go at
those beds clippety
clop zippety chop
hop in lie down curl
up you cheeky bouncy lot
all goat bed comfy now
sleepily sleepily sleep….