The Cough
From the book My Cat Knows Karate
There was a man who coughed a cough,
a cough so strong his head fell off.
His head fell off. It hit the ground.
It hit the ground and rolled around,
and rolled around and rolled away,
away into a field of hay,
a field of hay that caused a wheeze,
a wheeze that turned into a sneeze,
a sneeze he sneezed from dusk till dawn.
At dawn he sneezed his head back on.
away into a field of hay,
a field of hay that caused a wheeze,
a wheeze that turned into a sneeze,
a sneeze he sneezed from dusk till dawn.
At dawn he sneezed his head back on.
— Kenn Nesbitt
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Reading Level: Grade 4
Topics: Health, Imaginary Poems, Poems about Kooky Characters, Wacky Weirdness
Poetic Techniques: Narrative Poems, Repetition, Rhyme Schemes
From the book My Cat Knows Karate
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