Welcome back to The Daily Poem. I'm David Kern, and today is Friday, July 31st, 2020.

Today's poem is by Franz Wright. He was an American poet who lived from 1953 to 2015, and he won the Pulitzer Prize in 2004.

And that makes him part of the only parent-child pairing to have won the Pulitzer Prize in the same category because his father, James Wright, also won the Pulitzer Prize.

So that's an interesting little tidbit there, I suppose.

Today's poem is called Otto Lullaby.

And this is a poem for our younger listeners in particular. It actually

first appeared in a book and an anthology called Poetry Not Written for Children that Children

Might Nevertheless Enjoy, which was edited by Lemony Snicket, who of course is most famous for a series

of unfortunate events for those novels.

Before that, the poem was also published in the September 2013 edition of Poetry Magazine.

As the title of the Lemony Snicket Anthology suggests, this is a poem that is not just for children that adults might enjoy as well.

But we're going to use this poem for our next young listeners' competition.

And I'll explain more about that when I give some comments about the poem in just a second.

So here is Auto Lullaby by Franz Wright.

Think of a sheep, knitting a sweater.

Think of your life getting better and better. Think of your life getting better and better.

Think of your cat, asleep in a tree.

Think of that spot where you once skinned your knee.

Think of a bird that stands in your palm.

Try to remember the 21 first psalm think of a big pink horse galloping south think of a fly and close your mouth if you thirsty, then drink from your cup.

The birds will keep singing until they wake up.

So I find this poem very delightful.

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