this isn't the most adult poem you'll ever read, but i don't think that matters so much, especially when i'm missing the sailboat so much right now.
It’s a wonderful world but they made a few mistakes.
Like leaving out Unicorns and putting in snakes.
Like no wishing wells, no magic carpets, no genies.
Like good guys getting picked on by the meanies.
Like arithmetic, especially multiplication.
Like expecting a person to stay at home for a whole week with a sitter
while that person’s mother and father take a vacation
Like needing to finish green beans to get dessert.
Like everyone caring way too much about dirt.
Like letting there be a cavity in a tooth.
Like calling it a lie when all that this person has done is not mention
part of the truth.
Like raining on soccer games, and liver for supper.
Like bunk beds where the younger person always gets stuck with the
lower and the older person always gets the upper.
Like leaving out mermaids, and putting in splinters and bee stings and
wars and tornadoes a stomach aches.
It’s a wonderful world but they made a few mistakes.
-Judith Viorst
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