My Mother Was a Hippie
A Funny Family Poem for Kids
From the book The Armpit of Doom
My mother was a hippie.
My father was a punk.
And that is why
it happened I
turned out to be a hunk.
— Kenn Nesbitt
Copyright © 2012. All Rights Reserved.
Reading Level: Grade 3
Topics: Poems about Friends and Family, Wordplay
Poetic Techniques: Narrative Poems, Rhyme Schemes, Wordplay
From the book The Armpit of Doom
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