Me: Hey, Mom did you see my blog today? Amazing poem by Ben huh?
Mom: He didn’t write that. You did.
Me: What? No I didn’t! He did! I swear! He brought it home from school. I just copied it into my blog. Didn’t you see the picture?
Mom: Well sure but I thought he just drew that and that you wrote the poem. It was way too good for an 8 year old. No one thinks he wrote it. Amy doesn’t. You can tell from her comment.
Me: Well he did! He’s just that good. I’ll have to post an update tonight making sure everyone knows he really wrote it.
Later, on the way home from Little League practice…
Me: Ben, you have to tell Grandma that you wrote that poem! She doesn’t believe me that you actually wrote it.
Ben: That’s because I didn’t.
Me: WHAT?! I saw it! In your own handwriting and, AND you said you did!
Ben: No, I said everyone in the class had to write a poem but we all copied them from REAL poems.
Me: Oh. My. God. But I blogged about this. Ugh… I guess I have to post a different sort of ‘update’ tonight.
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So Internet, this is my official retraction. My son, Benjamin Mikkimoto did NOT write the cute little poem below. He’s good but I guess, not THAT good.
The REAL author is a wonderful man (actually I don’t know if he’s wonderful but since we just plagiarized his work, I vote, he’s a great guy) named Jack Prelutsky and this cute poem is in his book “Something Big Has Been Here.” Hey, the good news is, you can finally read the rest of the poem….
I also swear the picture is really Ben’s. I promise I didn’t mug a third grader walking out of the school to steal a piece of his artwork and claim it as my kid’s.
ROFL!!! That is so funny!!! I actually truly believed it was Ben and seriously wondered all day how he knew the word periscope…
You had all of us wondering…it is so good though that his Mom is convinced he is a genius…the line “My trusty feather duster” just did not sound like the Ben I know…
Yeah the Feather Duster should have given it away for me too. I barely dust let alone have a feather duster in the house.
Poor ben was worried last night that we were going to get in trouble. I said, “Oh honey, nice poet guy won’t sue us. And if he does, we always have your college savings…”
I don’t know if I can ever trust you again. But sending me gifts would probably help.
That is totally hilarious.
[...] Carrie Fisher. Carrie FISHER! What happened to you, Honey? You were Princess Leia for Christ sake! You wrote Postcards from The Edge. You have talent! So what the hell was this? I realize you had electric shock therapy recently but not even THAT is a good excuse for this thing called a book. Ben could have written something infinitely better. And not even a piece that was plagiarized. [...]
I totally believed it and thought that kid was WICKED SMART!
Reading this post? HILARIOUS!!!! That is just freakin’ hilarious. Better than an April Fools Day joke. He totally had you – and all of us. Except your mom…