CLEANING MY ROOM by Russ McKay
Posted on August 6, 2012
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My Mom said” You can’t go to play
‘Til you clean up your room today
It’s messy and wrong
And it’s been so long
Do it now without delay!”
I didn’t think my room looked so bad
It’s the only one I’ve ever had
It might take more than a day
I might never go play
I started to really feel sad
And then as I looked around
I noticed my bed off the ground
There was so much stuff under
It is a wonder
It could balance on top of that mound
So I decided to start
Maybe Mom will help if I do my part
I began pulling out junk
I even found a dead skunk
And some of last century’s art
I was pulling out more and more
Of stuff that I’d not seen before
A fire breathing dragon
A little red wagon
And the bones of a dinosaur
All this just couldn’t be
Mom can’t blame this junk on me
I pulled out a lawn mower
And the bed got much lower
It touched the floor when I pulled out the tree!
There were a few things more
. Beneath the bed on my floor
Like a giant clothes pin
And a shark’s dorsal fin
And finally I saw a door
I slowly opened the door
And looked down through the floor
But it was so dark
I just had to remark
“I wonder what this place is for!”
So I decided to throw
All that stuff down below
Then I tossed them all in
Again and again
Some were almost too big to go
But I finally did get through
It was more than I wanted to do
Now my room was all clean
Like I’d never seen
And my Mom thought it looked good too!
Now at night when I go to bed
I lie there and think what I did
I hope that door stays closed
‘Cause goodness knows
I want all that stuff to stay hid!