Poetry Friday: A Pizza the Size of the Sun

I'm Usually a Speedy Horse

I'm usually a speedy horse,
today I'm very slow.
I'm hardly making headway
as along the road I go.

I'm slower than a tortoise
or a sloth atop a tree--
my rider has decided
that he ought to carry me.

Happy Poetry Friday!


A Pizza the Size of the Sun
paperback edition
by Jack Prelutsky
illustrated by James Stevenson
Greenwillow