1. What can you do with a pencil?
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Peter TLT
What can you do with a pencil?
A poem by Judith Nicholls

2. fasten it behind your ear or tap it on the floor;
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Peter TLT
You can sharpen it
or break the point,
trap it in the door;
fasten it behind your ear
or tap it on the floor;
use it as a walking stick
(if you’re very small).
dig a hole to plant a seed,
tap it on a wall;
use it as a handy splint
for rabbit’s broken legs;
stir your coffee
stir your tea –
stir up all the dregs!
Drop it from a table top,
pop it in a case;
use it as a lollystick,
send it up in space!
Two will give you chopsticks,
one could pick a lock;
bore a hole and thread one
to darn a hole-y sock
These are just a few ideas,
there must be hundreds more –
but meantime, trap it, snap it, flap it,
TAP IT ON THE FLOOR!

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