True Grit
©2011 Susan Noyes Anderson
“I’ll make a bet with you,” Dad said.
(The desert heat was roasting.)
“I’ll cook your breakfast right out here.”
I thought that he was boasting.
Why, everybody knows that eggs
can’t fry up on the ground.
But I was wrong; I knew it when
I heard that sizzling sound.
I looked down, and my jaw dropped.
I cried out with sheer delight.
That egg was frying on the sidewalk!
What an awesome sight.
Dad handed me a fork, and
my enthusiasm fled.
I take my eggs with hash browns,
but he gave me grit(s) instead.
(Nothing like a little gravel to add some texture to your eggs!)
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If you got a kick out of this poem, you might also enjoy For the Birds.
Tags: breakfast, dad, eggs, fathers, funny poem for children, silly stuff
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.