Grimbeau

One…

Moo-cows and moo-bulls

thick mist and drizzle.

With window open I give

Whisht; ruff & honours paused,

Play-Boys & Play-Girls

dragged half-dead from dream

to school

to play.

Two…

The big kids attend

grownup therapy

later with grownups.

Children in Need,

they exasp, have these!

Comic relief, they

sad clown, give me some

I need it.

Three…

How they chuckle

at their chosen lot.

Today, we will not

play with cats

learn

a nursery rhyme called:

Brock the Bad

Bad Badger.

Four…

The children will nap,

not get to the last,

best dream,

and cry and

scream, and run away

to live with cats and

friendly badgers

in the woods.

Five…

It is there you can

Contract polio,

malaria, diphtheria, and hysteria

like the big kids who

fetch you later and

scold you for what they’ve been through.

You will learn a lesson

They will regret.