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March 05, 2010

Uncle Wesli’s New Mother Goose No. 4

ROCKET BY, BABY

 

Rocket by, baby, in your space ship,

When you count down the rocket will zip.

When you blast off, go into free fall,

And off will go baby, cockpit and all.

 

Originally published in Light Year '84, edited by Robert Wallace, Cleveland. OH: Bits Press, 1983 and collected in The Book of Forms, Third Edition by Lewis Turco, Lebanon, NH: University Press of New England, Copyright © 2000 and all rights reserved by the author.

Forms3 

 The Book of Forms: A Handbook of Poetics, Third edition, www.UPNE.com, 2000. ISBN 1584650222, trade paperback, $24.95, 337 pages. “The Poet’s Bible," A companion volume to The Book of Dialogue and The Book of Literary Terms. ORDER FROM AMAZON

 

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