We Bought a Lot of Candy Bars
From the book The Elephant Repairman
We bought a lot of candy bars.
We thought it would be neat
to have a ton for all the kids
who came to trick-or-treat.
We bought them early in the month
when they were all on sale.
We dragged the bags in from the car
and set them on the scale.
The candy weighed a hundred pounds!
I’m sure we got enough.
In fact, we may have had too much
of all that yummy stuff.
It wouldn’t hurt to just eat one,
or two, or three, or four.
We bought so much that we could
even eat a dozen more.
So every day we had a few;
a minuscule amount.
How many? I can’t say for sure.
I wasn’t keeping count.
Our pile grew smaller every day
by ten, fifteen, or twenty.
But, still, it didn’t matter.
We were certain we had plenty.
When Halloween arrived we checked
the candy situation,
and found that we had given in
to way too much temptation.
A single bar was all we had.
We’d eaten all the rest.
So, if our lights are off tonight,
I think that’s for the best.
— Kenn Nesbitt
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Reading Level: Grade 2
Topics: Food Poems, Halloween, Holiday Poems
Poetic Techniques: Assonance, Irony, Narrative Poems
Word Count: 196
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