3rd & 7th Grade Rhymes

 My writers' group had some fun with Dorothy Parker's Inventory.  I did it last week.  Here is my 3rd grader's:

Four be the things I am wiser to know:
Chinchillas, friends, candy, and snow.

Four be the things I'd be better without:
Meat, medicine, dust, and Grandpa's gout.

Three be the things I shall never attain:
King, snakes, and fame.

Three be the things I shall have till I die:
Hazel eyes, friends, and apple pie.

Here is her sister's, the 7th grader's:

Four be the things I am wiser to know:
Music, art, hockey, and I don't know.

Four be the things I'd be better without:
Sadness, accidents, pain, and doubt.

Three be the things I shall never attain:
An alligator, meanness, and cocaine.

Three be the things I shall have till I die:
Friends, hockey, and brown eyes

                                                                         with Grandpa.

Inventory for Me

 I think copying Dorothy Parker's poem, Inventory would be fun.  I'm going to bring it to my writers' group and see if they think so, too.

Inventory

Dorothy Parker - 1893-1967

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Four be the things I am wiser to know:
Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.

Four be the things I’d been better without:
Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.

Three be the things I shall never attain:
Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.

Three be the things I shall have till I die:
Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye.

My Inventory

Four be the things I am wiser to know:
Religion, friends, grandchildren, Fra Angelico.

Four be the things I'd be better without:
Cynicism, shyness, freckles, doubt.

Four be the things I shall never attain:
Fame, fortune, sainthood, and a chatelaine.

Three be the things I shall have till I die:
Faith, hope, love, and God's eye.