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J. Patrick Lewis
After a wild and rugged youth as a bronco rider, lobster fisherman, opera singer, confidential police informant, Economics professor, and Russian spy—he has been to Moscow thirteen times (shhh!)—J. Patrick Lewis is now in the Federal Witness Protection Program in XXXX, Ohio, USA with XXXX, his wife, and two vicious K-9 guard toy poodles. Please do not ask to see his secret tattoos. His alter ego, J. Patrick Lewis poet, has published 110 children’s picture and poetry books to date with Knopf, Atheneum, Dial, Harcourt, Little, Brown, National Geographic, Creative Editions, Chronicle, Scholastic, and others. The Poetry Foundation named him the third U.S. Children’s Poet Laureate (2011-2013). Recent books include the series Let’s Celebrate Christmas, Valentine’s Day, Thanksgiving and Halloween, and Everything is a Poem: The Best of J. Patrick Lewis. His website is here.
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Here is one of his lovely poems;
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How the Yellow Jacket
Lost her Shyness
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The King of England
Once was stung
Upon his royal bottom,
And you could hear
A yellow jacket
Yell, “Oh, boy, I got ‘im!”
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And that is how
The yellow jacket
Finally lost her shyness,
And how the English
Came to call the King
“His Royal Highness!”
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© J. Patrick Lewis
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