Two animals
Are both close to a cube
In shape.
The height of the first animal
Is 4 cm
The height of the second animal
Is 6 cm
Which animal
Would experience the greater
Amount
Of heat loss?
Explain.
Thanks to Cathy Yenca and Chris Robinson for the find, whose source is evidently a 2007 U.S. textbook.
mhampton‘s reformulation of my poem (in the comments below) led to some fun over on Twitter, which I collected on Storify.
Overthinking my teaching 
Why does seeing this problem spaced this way in italic print make me giggle so much?
In haiku form:
We are cubical-
roughly – sizes four and six.
Who loses more heat?
Brilliant. Just brilliant.