SOMEDAY SOMEONE WILL BET THAT YOU CAN'T NAME ALL FIFTY STATES - Judith Viorst Poems

 
 

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SOMEDAY SOMEONE WILL BET THAT YOU CAN'T NAME ALL FIFTY STATES
California, Mississippi
North and South Dakota.
New York, Jersey, Mexico and
Hampshire, Minnesota.
Vermont, Wisconsin, Oregon,
Connecticut and Maine.
Hawaii, Georgia, Maryland.
Virginia (West and plain).
Tennessee, Kentucky, Texas,
Illinois, Alaska.
Colorado, Utah, Florida,
Delaware, Nebraska.
the Carolinas (North and South).
Missouri, Idaho.
Plus Alabama, Washington,
And Indiana, O-
Klahoma. Also Iowa,
Arkansas, Montana,
Pennsylvania, Arizona,
And Louisiana.
Ohio, Massachusetts, and
Nevada, Michigan,
Rhode Island, and Wyoming. That
Makes forty-nine. You win
As soon as you say ____________.

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