I Want to be a Kangaroo
I want to be a kangaroo
with happy hopping feet.
I’d love to roam an outback home
with hot Australian heat.I want to be an elephant:
A gray, enormous beast,
from Africa, or India,
or somewhere warm at least.I want to be a crocodile.
What scales! What teeth! What fun:
to bake awhile beside the Nile
in bright Egyptian sun!But what I really want to be,
and where I want to go
is anything from anywhere
that’s never heard of snow.