"Mrs. Stein," a poem by Bill Dodds. A Stephen Carpenter illustration.
Mrs. Stein asks,
"Interested
in a school visit?"

 

 


--One of childhood's greatest joys:
Your school on the snow-closure list.

--Why, sometimes, it's better to live
in Buffalo than the Bahamas.

"More chips! More chips! More..."
--Knowing he needed to be
in top physical condition to keep lifting that
jumbo platter of "Houston nachos"
on Super Bowl Sunday,
Albert Peterson trained relentlessly.

--While Norbert wasn't able to get
the license plate number of the truck
that ran over him, he did manage to snag
the back axle.