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Cantaloupes are wonderful things
I want to write a poem
About a cantaloupe
They're orange and juicy
With strange little weavings on their shells
Now reminds me of a turtle
I wonder if they were ever turtles
Little cantaloupe turtles
I wonder how it would be
To live inside a cantaloupe
They're wonderful little mines
Of orange, fruity goodness
Natural bowls of joy
Brimming with cantaloupe soup
I would like to eat everything from a cantaloupe
But what irks me about a cantaloupe
Is why we can't elope
How come an antelope
Doesn't get to eat cantaloupe
If I could I would elope
With a cantaloupe for an antelope
But we can't elope
Tell me why we can't
And I will tell you why we can't
And we won't
But I tell you why I wish we could
Elope for a cantaloupe
Elope for an antelope
Your big dark eyes
And reckless attitude
Smart enough to know
This becomes so much more
Than a poem about a cantaloupe
But if nothing else I have now been taught
Something unknown to me before
As you did if you had no idea
Spelling cantaloupe
Was such a roundabout thing
Before you read this poem
As I had not
Before I wrote it
