How I Quit Sucking My Thumb
By Bruce Lansky
My mother says it’s childish and
my father says it’s dumb—
whenever they discover that
I’m sucking on my thumb.
It’s such a silly thing to do,
as everybody knows.
So now instead of sucking it
I stick it in my nose.
Copyright Credit: From Kids Pick The Funniest Poems edited by Bruce Lansky, copyright © 1991. Reprinted by permission of Running Press Adult, an imprint of Hachette Book Group, Inc.
Source: Kids Pick the Funniest Poems (Hachette Book Group, Inc., 1991)