Brandon Bransons Backpack

　　Brandon Branson's backpack

　　is unusually large.

　　He drags it into school

　　the way a tugboat drags a barge.

　　The main compartment holds

　　about a hundred hardback books.

　　The outside has a zillion

　　little pockets, strap and hooks.

　　Inside it has his calculators,

　　one for every class,

　　plus eighty markers, pens and pencils,

　　adding to it's mass.

　　It holds his new harmonica

　　plus three or four kazoos,

　　his binder and his lunchbox

　　and an extra pair of shoes.

　　Of course it has his mittens

　　with his winter coat and hat,

　　a soccer ball, a basketball,

　　a baseball glove and bat.

　　A CD player, headphones,

　　and a TV, with remote,

　　a telephone, computer,

　　and another hat and coat.

　　His skateboard and his scooter

　　have their own equipment rack.

　　It even has a space to park

　　his bicycle in back.

　　A teacher found it in the hall

　　today at 1:15,

　　She looked around for Brandon

　　who was nowhere to be seen.

　　She got some other teachers

　　who considered it and frowned,

　　then groaned and moaned and pulled

　　and dragged it off to lost and found.

　　They struggled through the doorway

　　feeling out of breath and strained,

　　and all of them were curious

　　to see what it contained.

　　They cautiously unzipped it

　　and they pulled it open wide,

　　and there was Brandon Branson

　　napping happily inside.

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