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# Flowers for Algernon
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/flowers-for-algernon/
- Published: 2025-09-25T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-09-25T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: if you give a mouse a cookie he will ask for milk but I gave my mouse a bouquet and his ears turned to silk
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Short Poem, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

if you give a mouse a cookie  
he will ask for milk  
but I gave my mouse a bouquet  
and his ears turned to silk

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**Author notes:** wc 25