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Michael Rosen (b. 1946) says he became a children's poet by accident - "I thought I was being...
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Yesterday
The day before yesterday
I think I'll go to school.
I think I'l take a walk
in the local swimming pool.
The T.V.'s broken
so I think I'll watch the News.
I'll be going out barefoot
in my sister's shoes.
I don't like her
so I call her my friend.
When I leave
I'll start at the end.
from Michael Rosen’s Book of Nonsense (Hodder , 1998), copyright © Michael Rosen 1998, used by permission of the author
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