Opposite Day
By Raven Howell
Illustrated by Neal Stepp
When I woke up on Opposite Day
it was snowing in the month of May.
Day was night, and night was day
when I woke up on Opposite Day.
I expected breakfast, perhaps French toast,
but Mom served dinner, a hot pot roast.
But the hot pot roast tasted cold,
the baby peas were very old.
And in the yard my scrawny cat,
now, proudly fluffy and fat,
was running from a red blue jay
when I woke up on Opposite Day.
But if opposite is the thumb of rule
I think, today . . . I won't have school!
By Raven Howell
Illustrated by Neal Stepp
When I woke up on Opposite Day
it was snowing in the month of May.
Day was night, and night was day
when I woke up on Opposite Day.
I expected breakfast, perhaps French toast,
but Mom served dinner, a hot pot roast.
But the hot pot roast tasted cold,
the baby peas were very old.
And in the yard my scrawny cat,
now, proudly fluffy and fat,
was running from a red blue jay
when I woke up on Opposite Day.
But if opposite is the thumb of rule
I think, today . . . I won't have school!
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