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My EVEN day started
when I saw EIGHT beds,
discovered SIX closets,
and Mom had TWO heads!
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At breakfast my Mom flipped
FOUR flapjacks to eat.
I noticed my TWO shoes
were both for left feet.
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"Today is your field trip. Here's soup in a sack,
and TEN watermelons are in your backpack."
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Our teacher Miss Dodd said,
"Pair off TWO by TWO.
Board the bus with a buddy;
we're off to the zoo!"
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I grinned at the end
of the long, bumpy ride.
Our zoo guides were kangaroos—
TWO, side by side.
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We hopped to our first stop,
the elephants’ house.
They each had FOUR trunks
and were spraying a mouse.
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The fierce lions roared
and flapped SIX giant wings,
while gators with antlers wore
EIGHT golden rings.
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The reptile exhibit with lizards
and snakes had boa constrictors
that juggled TEN cakes!
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We giggled when we saw TEN eyes and EIGHT tails,
SIX feathers, FOUR humps, and TWO long fingernails.
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“See the wild Scramblesaurus,” we read on the sign.
It looked patched together — scales covered its spine.
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We rode back to school,
paired again TWO by TWO,
on my ODD, EVEN day—
I sure hoped it was through.
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At home, I was eager
for bedtime that night,
hoping the next day
my world would be right.
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Next morning I woke up
and saw my ONE bed.
Mom looked like normal
with just her ONE head.
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Hurray! EVEN was over! I started to laugh.
Oh no! Today must be FRACTIONS...
my hair is ONE-HALF!
