House Rules

1. If you wash your hands with no soap
        dry them with the green towel.

2. If you wash your hands with the green soap
        shake them into the purple potato peelings.

3. Everybody gets a piece of pie.

4. If you ask somebody nicely
        and they still say no
        do a small dance in a secret room.

5. Always carry ostriches upright.

6. Never (ever) let a capital letter
        wander the house alone at night.

7. At birthday parties, remember your mother.

—Nancy Kangas