Worms would rather be worms.
Ask a worm and he says, 'Who knows what a worm knows?'
Worms go down and up and over and under.
Worms like tunnels.
When worms talk they talk about the worm world.
Worms like it in the dark.
Neither the sun nor the moon interests a worm.
Zigzag worms hate circle worms.
Curve worms never trust square worms.
Worms know what worms want.
Slide worms are suspicious of crawl worms.
One worm asks another, 'How does your belly drag today?'
The shape of a crooked worm satisfies a crooked worm.
A straight worm says, 'Why not be straight?'
Worms tired of crawling begin to slither.
Long worms slither farther than short worms.
Middle-sized worms say, 'It is nice to be neither long nor short.'
Old worms teach young worms to say, 'Don't be sorry for me unless
you have been a worm and lived in worm places and read worm
books.'
When worms go to war they dig in, come out and fight, dig in
again, come out and fight again, dig in again, and so on.
Worms underground never hear the wind overground and some-
times they ask, 'What is this wind we hear of?'
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CARL SANDBURG
