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Bug Activity #2: Shiny Green Bugs
Your Assignment: Alan R. Turner wrote this poem in 1995.   He has posted it to the internet on a page called Bad Poems. Read the poem.  Open a Word document and write several paragraph on one of these two topics: "I think Mr. Turner is right, Shiny Green Bugs is a bad poem because....." or "I think Mr. Turner is wrong, Shiny Green Bugs is a good poem because..."  Print and turn into your teacher. You can read other Bad Poems at http://www.well.com/user/arturner/poems.html

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Shiny Green Bugs

There are many kinds of little bugs.
Shiny green ones are the best.
Iridescent exoskeletons
Are prettier than the rest. green bug 2a.gif (8184 bytes)

Sometimes I wonder how it would feel
To have extra arms, and wings!
What would I do if I was like that? 
green bug 1b.gif (5283 bytes)Some wonderful lovely things!

I would fly in to your living room
To see what was on the wall.
I would look for something good to eat
My antennae tasting all!

I would fly out to your garden beds green bug 3a.gif (9813 bytes)
And check out all your flowers.
Where can I go? I must lay my eggs!
For I will be dead in hours!

green bug 5b.gif (14596 bytes)I'd see roses in a pretty hue;
With shoots that are tender and bare
I'd extend my ovipositor,
Deposit my eggs right there.

They have very short lives, little bugs
But they also have no concern.
For with every metamorphosis
They will get another turn.


© 1995 by Alan R. Turner. All Rights Reserved

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