Benjamin Plays Bass Guitar
From the book The Armpit of Doom
Benjamin plays bass guitar
completely out of tune.
Sarah sings while sucking from
a helium balloon.
Payton plays piano with her
elbows and her chin.
Brayden bangs on buckets
with a plastic bowling pin.
Nathan’s nose has two kazoos;
one sharp, the other flat.
Bailey sits on bagpipes
sounding like a screaming cat.
We play this way on purpose
with a sound no one can stand.
It’s fun to be the country’s most
annoying student band.
— Kenn Nesbitt
Copyright © 2012. All Rights Reserved.
Reading Level: Grade 3
Topics: Music Poems, School Poems
Poetic Techniques: Alliteration, Descriptive Poems, Imagery, List Poems, Metaphor and Simile, Onomatopoeia
Word Count: 80
From the book The Armpit of Doom
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