10 Ch10-You Snooze, You Lose

Chapter 10 You Snooze, You Lose Every day, the tote board in front of the school had a new number on it: 650... 700... 750. We were getting close to a thousand poems. Word must have been getting out about me. In the next week, I sold poems to Ryan and Michael and some of the other boys in my class. During recess, some boys from

the other classes came over to buy poems from me too. I was raking in the dough! Writing poems was a great way to make money. I almost didn't want National Poetry Month to end. Meanwhile, Andrea was speed-reading her way through her encyclopedia. Every day she would annoy me with some dumb new fact she learned about tigers and unicorns and walruses.* *Did you know that a walrus can get sunburned? I didn't know that. But I didn't tell Andrea. Soon I'll be finished with my encyclo- pedia, she told me on the way to Ms.

Coco's room, and then I'll be the smartest person in the world. I hate her. After we got to the G and T room, Ms. Coco came running in. Sorry I'm late, she said. I had to put on my face. Where was it before you put it on? I asked. Ms. Coco laughed and told us that today's assignment was to write a rhyming poem about animals. I love animals! Andrea said. This will be easy. I thought for a while, tapping my pencil on my desk. I peeked at Andrea's paper. She was writing some lame poem

about a cat. It was a total rip-off of The Cat in the Hat. Suddenly I got an idea. I started writing a poem called Animals Are Weird. The words just flowed out of my brain: Bats will sleep upside down in trees, and elephants are the only creatures that have four knees. Clams start out as boys and become girls later, but crocodiles don't become alligators! For dinner an aardvark will eat a termite, and cats can see better than humans at night. A hummingbird is the smallest bird and the only one that can fly backward.

Did you know a camel has three eyelids, and mosquitoes don't prefer to bite kids? A beaver can hold its breath for five minutes, and mackerels lay eggs almost without limits. You can hear a lion roar five miles away. Most ants are dead by their sixtieth day. A poor little owl can't move its eye, and if it eats chocolate, a parrot will die. Did you know a walrus can get sunburned? These are a few of the things that I learned. You won't see a dog or a cat with a beard, but animals, if you ask me, are weird.

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