July
In July I'll take a peep
Into the cool and fishy deep
Where chicken soup is selling cheap
Selling once, selling twice
Selling chicken soup with rice
In July I'll take a peep
Into the cool and fishy deep
Where chicken soup is selling cheap
Selling once, selling twice
Selling chicken soup with rice
This is the July stanza from Maurice Sendak’s Chicken Soup With Rice. I first heard this poem when my granddaughter Mollie came home from
school reciting the September stanza, all the while undulating her arms like an
Egyptian belly dancer and telling us about a crocodile going “down the chicken
soup-y Nile”. Her body language and recitation were hilarious.
Each month they learned a new stanza, though I don’t know what happened
for June through August. By that time it was old hat. But since then, Chicken Soup With Rice has become my
second-favorite nonsense poem. Jabberwocky
is first, of course. So for a while, on
the chicken soup-y Nile, I’ll send along that month’s stanza. Be sure to memorize them all – there will be
a “quickie quiz” later on.
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