The Amazing Wish Machine

This poem is for Project OpenBook, a community-built children’s book. Details below.

Cross your fingers
And close one eye.
Wiggle your nose
And yell BONZAI!

Turn in a circle
And make a wish.
Grab the button
And give it a SQUISH.

At first a BANG
And then a SNAP.
It jumps to life,
This rattle trap.

SPUTTER and COUGH,
JIGGLE and WHIRRR
FIZZ-POP, BE-BOP,
SHUTTER-HOP, PURRRR.

PFFFF goes some steam.
CLIK-CLAK the gears turn.
Somewhere deep inside
A small fire burns.

Out pops a hand…
RATTLE and SHAKE…
It gives you a pinch
And jars you awake.

Machines won’t make
Your wishes true.
For that you’ll need…
You, you, you.

Written by Phil Haussler.

Illustrated by Brad Sneed.

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