A shy bird swallows various items like gum, a pen, a cheater, a car, and even a school. Each time it swallows something new to deal with getting stuck or crunching up what it had swallowed before. By the end, after swallowing all these things, the bird has become dumb. The poem is signed by two young authors, Paige and Kyah.

1. I know a shy bird that swallowed some gum
I don’t know why she swallowed some gum
Perhaps she’ll turn dumb.
I know a shy bird that swallowed a pen
At least she’s not a hen to swallow a pen.
She swallowed the pen to get stuck in the gum
I don’t know why she swallowed some gum,
perhaps she’ll turn dumb.
I know a shy bird that swallowed a cheater
Oh dam he wanted to eat her and eat her and eat her.
She swallowed the cheater to crunch up the pen.
She swallowed the pen to get stuck in the gum

2. I don’t know why she swallowed some gum
Perhaps she’ll turn dumb.
I know a shy bird that swallowed a car,
I hope she doesn’t barf when she swallows the car.
She swallowed the car to squash the cheater
She swallowed the cheater to crunch up the pen
She swallowed the pen to get stuck in the gum,
I don’t know why she swallowed some gum
Perhaps she’ll turn dumb.
I know a shy bird that swallowed a school,
to help with the tragedy that happened on the full.
She’s dumb…………!
THE END
By: Paige and Kyah.