Help Wanted
Santa needs new reindeer.
The first bunch has grown old.
Dasher has arthritis;
Comet hates the cold.
Prancer’s sick of staring
at Dancer’s big behind.
Cupid married Blitzen
and Donder lost his mind.
Dancer’s mad at Vixen
for stepping on his toes.
Vixen’s being thrown out—
she laughed at Rudolph’s nose.
If you are a reindeer
we hope you will apply.
There is just one tricky part:
You must know how to fly.
Copyright Credit: Timothy Tocher, "Help Wanted" from Kids Pick the Funniest Poems. Copyright © 1991 by Timothy Tocher. Reprinted by permission of Meadowbrook Press.
Source: Kids Pick the Funniest Poems (Meadowbrook Press, 1991)