Izzy O’Rainty
From the book My Hippo Has the Hiccups
I’s Izzy O’Rainty
I ain’t not bizzare.
I is how I ain’t
and I ain’t how I are.
I wasn’t not never
the way that I was.
And now I don’t never
not do what I does.
At being not me
I is truly a whiz.
I is what I’s not
and I ain’t what I is.
I wouldn’t not never
not do what I won’t.
Whatever I can do
I certainly I don’t.
I isn’t not happy.
I has no complaint.
I’s perfect not being
just not how I ain’t.
I is how I are when
I ain’t how I be.
I’s Izzy O’Rainty
I’s not really me.
— Kenn Nesbitt
Copyright © 2009. All Rights Reserved.
Reading Level: Grade 2
Topics: Poems about Kooky Characters, Wacky Weirdness
Poetic Techniques: Descriptive Poems, Nonsense Poems, Paradox Poems, Wordplay
From the book My Hippo Has the Hiccups
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