Fourth grade poems, some more

It's been awhile since the last selection from my fourth grade book of Poems for Everything. Fear not, the wait is over! Here we have:

A Special Birthday

Wonderful state
Is 142 years old
State no. 30
Called the Badger State
On Wisconsin is our song
Nicolet was the first Frenchman
Super land
Inland lakes
Nothing can compare

I'm not really sure what was so special about the 142nd birthday of Wisconsin. But hey. Inland lakes! Can you feel the excitement? "Super land" was a total copout, though. I couldn't think of anything more state-specific that started with S? What about, for example, "sweet-ass crancheddar"? I should write another one of these.

The first 10 phrases...

...to come into my head will be a poem. Entitled "20 Minutes Until I Leave Work, April 26th, 2005"

portals are opening one at a time
the light shines out and breathes in water
drowning is sometimes the right thing to do -
sometimes not, and when you say it I know
the small boat could have carried us all that way
but then I didn't trust it
lighthouses gleam in rhythm
the sea is dancing as the rain comes down
diving below and springing back to air
now I must go to State Street and buy crancheddar

Haha. 2 minutes, 12 seconds elapsed. Mmmmm, it's slightly alarming that something that would seem quasi-deep (in a shallow kind of way) to the unsuspecting reader can be spewed forth at such a rate. Well, except for that last line. I had to throw that in there because A) it's true, and B) that poem needed a bitch slap.