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My Favourite Poem - Helen
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| Title: |
Wouldn’t it be Funny if You Didn’t Have a
Nose?
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| Author: |
Roger McGough
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| Recommended age range: |
5 upwards |
| This poem can be found
in: |
‘All the Best: The selected Poems of Roger
McGough’
Puffin ISBN 0141316373
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| My response to this poem: |
This poem really will make children laugh at
its ridiculous notion! The will love the bizarre suggestions and
possibilities. They may even like to come up with some of their
own!
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You couldn't smell your dinner
If you didn't have a nose
You couldn't tell a dirty nappy
From a summer rose
You couldn't smell the ocean
Or the traffic, I suppose
Oh wouldn't it be funny
If you didn't have a nose?
You couldn't smell your mummy
If you didn't have a nose
You couldn't tell an orange
from a row of smelly toes
You couldn't smell the burning
(Think how quick a fire grows)
Wouldn't it be funny
If you didn't have a nose
You couldn't smell a rat
If you didn't have a nose
You couldn't tell a duchess
From a herd of Buffaloes
And . . . mmmm that Gorgonzola
As it starts to decompose
Oh wouldn't it be funny
If you didn't have a nose?