My Robot Does My Homework
From the book My Hippo Has the Hiccups
My robot does my homework.
He helps me every night.
The trouble is he doesn’t get
too many answers right.
He’d probably do better
at homework but, you see,
I built him, so he only knows
the things he learned from me.
— Kenn Nesbitt
Copyright © 2009. All Rights Reserved.
Reading Level: Grade 3
Topics: School Poems, Science and Technology Poems
Poetic Techniques: Descriptive Poems, Irony
Word Count: 47
From the book My Hippo Has the Hiccups
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