"We Are Plooters" We are Plooters, We don't care, We make messes Everywhere, We strip forests Bare of trees, We dump garbage In the seas. We are Plooters, We enjoy Finding beauty To destroy, We intrude Where creatures thrive, Soon there's little Left alive. Underwater, Underground, Nothing's safe When we're around, We spew poisons In the air, We are Plooters, We don't care. -Jack Prelutsky Copyright (c) 1993 by Jack Prelutsky. Used by permission of the author, who controls all rights. "Where Are You Now?" When the night begins to fall And the sky begins to glow You look up and see the tall City of light begin to grow -- In rows and little golden squares The lights come out. First here, then there Behind the windowpanes as though A million billion bees had built Their golden hives and honeycombs Above you in the air. -Mary Britton Miller From All Aboard by Mary Britton Miller. Copyright (c) 1958 by Pantheon Books, Inc. Reprinted by permission of Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc. Excerpted from The 20th Century Children's Poetry Treasury by Jack Prelutsky All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.
