SIBLINGS
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I've got 99 brothers and sisters
I'm the youngest one by lots
When you've got this many siblings
You just go with what you gots
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I've been the same size
Since I can't remember when
The rest are all bigger
Than me 'cause I'm only ten
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There's Jimmy and Kathy
And Bobby and Glen
All the usual names
It didn't take long, but then
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They ran out of names
No surprise you can guess
When they got to the Z's
And had twins, what a mess
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It got hard to remember
All the names of the kids
So they thought about numbers
But that's not what they did
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My parents got sort of silly
They can't really be blamed
It turned into a contest
To come up with a name
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There was Boxer and Bumper
Then Zipper and Kronk
Sparkles and Sprinkles
And Tinkle and Tonk
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But now things have changed
Just how happy I'll be
I'm no longer the youngest
And HER name's simply Z
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Sometimes I know what I was thinking and where a poem comes from. But that didn't happen with
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SIBLINGS.
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It just sort of... spilled out of my head. And it kept coming and coming.
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After this I decided to try to write shorter poems. But I still like it and think it is quite Silly, but fun.