Eating My Words: And 128 Other Poems - Library Bindingby Brian P. Cleary (Author) At lunch, I ate three cans of alphabet soup. An hour later I had thesaurus throat ever. Brian Cleary brings his trademark humor and wordplay to middle grade readers in this poetry collection. Featuring limericks, concrete poems, haiku, quatrains, acrostics, and much more, the book is in equal parts entertaining and educational. Spot illustrations accompany the poems, as do brief notes about poetic forms and poetic devices.