Poetry or Prose?
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The primary four school teacher was teaching English and taught her students the following ditty:
"Mary had a little lamb, whose fleece was white as snow, and
everywhere that Mary went, the lamb was sure to go."She explained this was an example of poetry, but could be changed to
prose by changing the last line from 'the lamb was sure to go' to 'the
lamb went with her.'A few days later, she asked for an example of
poetry or prose.Little Michelle raised her hand and said,
"Mary had a little pig - A very naughty little runt. He stuck his nose in Mary's clothes and smelled her little . . ."
She stopped, turned to the teacher, and asked, "Do you
want poetry or prose?""Prose." the teacher said weakly.
So, Michelle said, ". . . Knees. Poetry would have been Toes."
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