when i grow up

today wyatt is having a poetry slam at school...so cool!! here is the poem he will be reciting (so him)!!

when i grow up
by william wise

when i grow up
i think i'll be
a detective
with a skeleton key.

i could be a soldier
and a sailor too;
i'd like to be a keeper
at the public zoo.

i'll own a trumpet
and i'll play a tune;
i'll keep a space ship
to explore the moon.

i'll be a cowboy
and live i the saddle
i'll be a guide
with canoe and a paddle.

i'd like to be the driver
of a diesel train'
and it must be fun
to run a building crane.

i'll live in a lighthouse
and guard the shore;
and i know i'll want to be
a dozen things more.

for the more a boy lives
the more a boy learns-
i think i'll be all of them
by taking turns.