Swallow a Slug
By its tail or its snout
Feel it slide down
Feel it climb out
Tie one on a leash
Take it for a walk
Take your Slug to school today
Teach it how to talk
Slugs are small and portable
Just stuff 'em up your nose
They'll fit beneath your armpits
Or right between your toes
-David Greenberg, Slugs
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The book goes on in this vein until the terrifying conclusion: "Why, there are Slugs that know karate / There are Slugs as big as you / And some night when you're fast asleep / This is what they'll do:". Things do not go well for our protagonist from this point on. The slugs get their revenge.
Can you believe my MOTHER gave me this book?
Somehow, since it involves revenge, it sounds like a book your mother would give you.
I'm SHOCKED that you would say that - my mom isn't a particularly revengeful person!
Actually, she gave me this book because it came with a stuffed slug, and I have had a bizarre fascination with slugs since middle school.
Also, I should mention that I was in college when she gave it to me - hardly an impressionable youth.
I think we were rather impressionable in college, truth be told.
And how did I never meet the slug book?! How could I have missed such an opportunity to be... impressed? impressioned? impersonated? =)
I think perhaps it was a birthday gift, so it never made it back to Wheaton...or maybe it was a post-college gift? It seems odd now that the slug wasn't a fixture in my dorm room. What a missed opportunity. Imagine how much it would have troubled Dez... :)
slugs in yur armpits and slugs in yur nose sound...fun...but slugs IN YOUR TOES! oh. my. that is ...toooo much.
and you SO need the skunk book. i am telling you. next time i go to a childrens library i will get it and bring it to LC
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