Science Fair Project

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Science Fair Project

PURPOSE:
The purpose of my project this year
Is to make my brother disappear.

HYPOTHESIS:
The world would be a better place
If my brother vanished without a trace.

MATERIALS:
3 erasers
White-out
Disappearing ink
1 younger brother
1 kitchen sink

PROCEDURE:
Chop up the erasers.
Add the white-out and the ink.
Rub it on the brother
While he's standing in the sink.

RESULTS:
The kid was disappearing!
I had almost proved my theorem!
When all at once my mom came home
And made me re-appear him.

CONCLUSION:
Experiment a failure.
My brother is still here.
But I'm already planning
For the science fair next year.

~ Carol Diggory Shields,
Almost Late to School and More School Poems