When eating some cherries
I swallowed a pit.
I wonder if something
will come of it.
Just think how ridiculous
it would be
if I should give birth
to a cherry tree.
Text © Bruce Lansky reprinted from If Pigs Could Fly..., published by Meadowbrook Press. Illustration © Stephen Carpenter. Any copying or use of this poem or illustration without consent is unlawful.
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