Because I Could Not Stop My Bike

Ivy has memorized parts of over twenty poems thanks to Karen Shapiro.  Karen has written parodies  of famous poems appropriate for children.  Instead of Dickenson's "Because I Could Not Stop For Death", a young girl tells a story called "Because I Could Not Stop My Bike".  All the poems follow the same rhyme scheme and meter as the original poem.  My personal favorite is "Macaroni and Cheese", a parody of Poe's "Annabelle Lee".  Ivy's favorite (a parody of Blayke) opens with:

Tiger, Tiger
Took a Bite
Out of my dessert last night.