GOOSEBERRY

I no longer want to be a gooseberry!

But wouldn’t it be merry – very –

To be a duckberry, – what?

I’d like that a quacking lot!

Or a turkeyberry for that matter

And never run out of chatter.

A swanberry – yes, that would be nice.

A swanberry – cool as ice:

With cygnetberries all in a row

Waiting to turn into snow.

Anything! Anything but a gooseberry!

I’m nothing but a hairy what’s–the–use–berry!