Today I Decided to Make Up a Word

Today I decided to make up a word,
like flonk, or scrandana, or hankly, or smurred.
My word will be useful and sound really cool;
a word like chindango, or fraskle, or spewl.

My friends and my teachers will all be impressed
to learn that I've made up a word like extrest,
or crondic, or crambly, or squantion, or squank.
Whenever they use it, it's me that they'll thank.

They'll call me a genius and give me a prize,
repeating my word, be it shimble, or glize,
or frustice, or frongry, or frastamazoo,
or pandaverandamalandamaloo.

You'll see it on TV shows one of these days.
They'll use it in movies. They'll put it in plays.
They'll shout it from rooftops! The headlines will read,
"This Kid Has Invented the Word that We Need!"

I'll make up my word, and I'll share it with you,
and you can tell people from here to Peru;
the old ones, the young ones, and those in between...
as soon as I figure out what it should mean.

--Kenn Nesbitt

Copyright © 2008 Kenn Nesbitt
All Rights Reserved

Comments

	On May 11, 2008 ember tully from canada wrote: omgosh i love thie poem !
	On May 4, 2008 your worst enemy from republic of congo wrote: pandaverandamalandamaloo is my word!!!!!!!!!!!!! I made it up in 76,473,965 years ago, I have a lawyer, Chuck Norris. Im sewing u for $100,000,000.37
	On May 1, 2008 stacy from usa wrote: I was so surprised!
	On May 1, 2008 billy bob from toe town wrote: i liked it alot and geuss wat i made up my own word frankidydotootlydoobobpittydoo it means cool it's like the best word in the world
	On May 1, 2008 Ashley Tisdale from America wrote: That was cool

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