Poetry, Funk Art & Droodles

In the last several months Blondie (age 3) has gone bonkers over this book. She loves several of these short poems and enjoys making me say the titles (in a strange voice) before reading them. Here are some of her favorites:

Happy Birthday

Kick A Little Stone

Swing

I'm Small

Brother

I've yet to read my poems to her, mostly because there are no fun illustrations to accompany them. I can't draw very well, but I can droodle around with a Sharpie, as long as objects can be funky and nothing close to looking realistic. Funk. It's a music genre, but shouldn't it also be an artistic method? 

"Hey, what kind of art are you into?"   

"Funk."

-Pause-

"Oh. What's that?"

"You know, funk art. Anything funky. Nothing too real."

-Pause-

"Okay. Right. Whatever."

So maybe *funk art doesn't work so well. But I do like the word droodle, which I kind of made up a while back. 

drawing + doodle = droodle

If anyone already uses this **word or knows of it, let me know. I'm thinking of submitting it to Webster or whoever you submit new words to. I think it has a chance.  

Any funky words you're particularly proud of creating?

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*Funk Art already exists. Rats!

**What the &@#!% (Life's only fair on weekends; too bad it's Monday)