The Quail

by Medha Iyengar, age 7
The Quail Medha is seven and a half years old and is in second grade. She loves swimming, gardening, and writing. She likes to write mythical and fantastical stories!

“I had a quail who drank ginger ale / and always got the mail.”

I had a quail who drank ginger ale

and always got the mail. 

It was great, 

amazingly great 

but I had to grate cheese, 

wait that’s the same word

but spelled differently,

it’s a homophone!

Okay, back to the poem

and my quail surprised me

by eating a whale.

Before she ate the whale,

I wondered if it was

my pet whale, 

but it wasn’t 

then I gave my quail

a slice of blue whale 

and she swallowed it

before the mail.

Then she got up

and asked for ginger ale 

with her slice of blue whale

and she said that she failed

on her test of hammering nails.


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