The speaker is worried about the following happenings, as mentioned in the poem:

● If he/she gets dumb in school

● If they closed the swimming pool

● If he/she got beaten up

● If there was poison in his/her cup

● If he/she began to cry

● If he/she got sick and died

● If he/she flunked in that test

● If green hair grew on his/her chest

● If nobody liked him/her

● If a bolt of lightning struck him/her

● If he/she did not grow taller

● If his/her head started getting smaller

● If the fish stopped biting

● If the wind tore his/her kite

● If they started a war

● If his/her parents get divorced

● If the bus gets late

● If his/her teeth don’t grow in straight

● If he/she tore his/her own pants

● If he/she never learned to dance