U a IF Y Were Chocolate Mustache AUART PEANUT BuTTER Ker A P ems by Children's Poet Laureate J Patrick Lewis Drawings by Matthew Cordell WORDONG HONESDALE PENNSYLVANIA
For Sue JPL For Julie and Romy MC
The Backward Man There was a man from Santa Cruz Who sold his shiny Sunday shoes The shoelaces The shoelace holes The heels and tongues He sold the soles And not one thing was overlooked He sold the steps the shoes once took The nincompoop who bought the shoes Now walks around in Santa Cruz But always with a backward look Taking steps the shoes once
