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The Silly Tree

By Jake Roblyer

Once there was a silly tree. And it loved a little dog Every day the dog would come And sleep on silly tree’s leaves And dream about sleeping in the forest He would lie on the tree’s trunk And break the tree’s branches And play with it’s apples And the dog would chase its shadow in the shade And the dog liked the tree Kinda and the tree was happy The time passed on by And the dog grew older And the tree was often silly Then one day the dog came back to the silly tree And the tree said, ”come dog, sleep on my trunk, and eat my apples and chase you’re shadow in the shade.” “ I am not tired” said the dog, “And I am not hungry” “ I want a bed, can you give me a bed?” “ I have no bed either