Journal Entry 1 by UMajor from Zürich, Zürich Switzerland on Wednesday, April 30, 2003

Exerpt from
Let’s Pretend – Poems of Flight and Fancy
Compiled by Natalie S. Bober
Illustration by Bill Bell
CROCODEAR by Gina Ruck-Pauquet (translated from the German by Doris Orgel)






Why
Can’t I have a crocodile?
I’ve wanted one for quiet a while.
Oh, I would take good care of him:
I’d fill the tub, so he could swim.
I’d also put in sand and rocks.
I’d knit him Nile-green crocosocks.
(To wear or not, just as he chose).
I’d kiss him on his croconose.
I’d let him curl up on my lap
And take a little croconap,
Oh, he’d be crococozy here,
And I would call him Crocodear,
And he would teach me cree, and cro
(A language other kids don’t know),
Ans then I’d soon speak Crocodilish.
Don’t you think that would be stylish?