A Poem from Ted Scheu

Hey guys, this bit of genius comes from Ted Scheu at poetryguy.com. Ted wrote me an email this week telling me to keep being myself. For me, that's great encouragement because it's coming from someone who is introduced in schools across the country as "a third or fourth grader in a grown-ups body!"

Art Museum

“Please, don’t touch!
Please, no noise!
Pay attention,
girls and boys!”

“Please don’t yawn!
Please, don’t sit!
Chewing gum
we don’t permit!”

They’ve dragged us on a field trip to
this musty old museum.
We’re lookin’ at some paintings now,
but I don’t wanna see ‘em.

We have to “stay together” and “be quiet”--
that’s “the rule.”
I thought I’d never say this, but
I’d rather be in school.

Wait a second... Holy smokes!
It’s getting better now!
If you could see what I am seeing,
all you’d say is... “WOW!”

Museums are amazing,
as anybody knows.
‘Cause people in some paintings,
(and on a bunch of statues, too)

AREN’T WEARING ANY CLOTHES!
© 2007 Ted Scheu