Pompom Trees

Shira Lichtman
Out of the Mouths of Babes
1 min readDec 20, 2014

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Pompom trees grow on beaches. On beaches with sneeches.
Their leaves have a scent that can scare away leeches.

Newton the elephant sat there one day, under the trees with the star belly sneeches. When suddenly poor Newton heard a loud thump which on his head marked a big bump.

A pompom was laying on the sand next to him, hard in the middle but soft by the rim.

“I knew it” said Newton as he stretched out his trunk “A theory of a force I think I just thunk.”

And so from that day with the pompom and tree, the world lived by the rules of gravity.

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