Hat Trick
©1993 Susan Noyes Anderson, Lollipops
I have a bright red fireman’s hat.
My favorite toy, imagine that!
I help to put out fires and then
I climb back on my truck again.
But when the fires are all at bay,
I turn my hat the other way,
and PRESTO! I’m a jungle star––
Safari Sam from Zanzibar!
I track a tiger to its lair,
then face it down with my fiercest glare.
Uh-oh. It’s growling, a terrible sound!
I quickly turn my hat around,
and ZAP! I’m a boy with a fireman’s hat,
safe at home with my pussycat.
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Tags: children, fireman, hat, humor, imagination
Susan Noyes Anderson
Susan Noyes Anderson is the author of At the End of Your Rope, There’s Hope, Deseret Book, ©1997; Awaken Your Spiritual Power: The Fairy Godmother Isn’t Coming!, Karisma Press, ©1999; and His Children (poetry only, photos are by Anita Schiller), Vantage Point Press, ©2003.