Beanstalks

The beanstalk that goes up
Will take you

To the giant’s house

The beanstalk that goes down

Will take you

To the fairy garden

The beanstalk

In the sandbox

Will take you

To the sand castle

The sand castle

Is surrounded

By the ocean moat

And the ocean moat

Is filled with fish

And the fish

Are the friends

Of the mermaids

And the mermaids

Ride the seahorses

And the seahorses

Are friends

With the real horses

Who are ridden

By princesses

Galloping into battle

Against jabberwockies

And wabberjockies

And all manners of monsters

That live beyond

The ocean moats

The beanstalk

That’s sideways

Will take you

To the moon

The beanstalk

That’s diagonal

Will take you

To the land

Of tic, tac, toe

You can play against

The troll

That told all the riddles

Until the riddles were solved

And now he only deals

In ‘O’s and ‘X’s

And lives in Texas

So the stalk

Can take you

To Texas

Where the Dust Dogs live

And the Coyote Cats

And the cowboys who ride

Tornadoes

Like the mermaids

Ride the seahorses

And the seahorses

Eat the flowers

That grow

From the beanstalk

But only the one

That comes from

The sandbox

The beanstalk

That’s green

Will take you

To the jungle

The beanstalk

That’s blue

Will take you

To the lake

The beanstalk

That makes

A rustling noise

Will take you

To a land

That’s full of toys

And those toys

Make a noise

That sounds like

The rustling

Of the beanstalk leaves

But nobody believes

The leaves

Are the ones

Making the noise

The beanstalk

That moves

Will take you

To a traveling carnival

Where you can ride

The Ocean Moat Boat

Which will take you

Around the Sand Castle

That is not the Sand Castle

Like the one you can get to

Via the sandbox

But a different one

That is a replica--

That is to say

A copy

Of that sandbox

And so there are no fish

In the ocean moat

And the boat

Won’t show you mermaids

On seahorses

But you will see the wishes

That are thrown

In the ocean moat

As you travel by boat

The beanstalk

That’s a mile wide

Will take you

High then higher

Then the highest

You’ve ever been

Past the giant’s house

Past the moon

Past the stars

Far, far, far

From there it’ll take you

Wherever you wish to go

But nobody knows

Where that could be

Well, nobody

But you

And me

Provided you tell me

If you wish

But first throw the wish

In the ocean boat moat

That’s the only way

It can come true

A beanstalk starts

As a sand castle wish

Provided it’s not eaten

By a sand castle fish

When it reaches

The sand castle

That isn’t in

The moving amusement park

And provided

It isn’t struck down in the battle

Of the princesses

And the wabberjockies

And the rockiejabjabs

And the cab-key-donkeys

But if it gets past

All of that

It’ll be quite a sight

As it heads to the night

And waits for you

To climb it

But that’s just one

Kind of beanstalk

And there are so many

To climb

And scale

And hang from

And lay down on

And dig up

And dream of

The beanstalk that goes up

Will take you to the giant’s house

But there are so many

Other places

To go

But that’s up to you

I guess you could say

And there are new beanstalks 

Growing

Every

Day