Fun with broccoli and Brussels sprouts
Some children think the very worst thing
Is having to eat their greens
They haven't opened their imaginations
To what that really means.
If you saw your food the way I do
It would make you smile and laugh
Cos gazing over your plate is like
an aerial photograph
It's not broccoli or Brussels sprouts
If you play you're in the sky
It's forests of trees and cabbages
Beneath your giant's eyes.
You reach your giant hand
Carrying a giant fork
And spear a tree or two
And stick it where you usually talk
You are so giantly giantish
Living a giant's life
That you can eat six cabbages
No need to use a knife
They fit inside your giant mouth
And you give them a giant chew
And suddenly greens are much more fun
If you see them the way I do.
by banana_the_poet aka Michele Brenton
