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HIDE & SNAKE

 

 

Hiss! hiss! hiss!

Chrissy shan’t miss

her pet snake.

 

It slithered and it wriggled

— along —

— so long —

— on —

that wicked fellow John.

 

It looked at her longingly,

Chrissy’s pet snake

He he! hiss hiss!

 

She hit it with a broom —

in the living-room,

Chrissy’s pet snake.

 

‘For Pete’s sake!’

(for that was his name)

‘You’ve squashed his brain!’

I yelled at her.

 

Though not deterred

a jot.

‘I should have shot

both you and the snake,’

she hissed direct a' me.

 

Ha ha! hiss hiss!

Chrissy shan’t miss

her pet snake.

 

hiss!

     humbug!

          squish!  esias ryder, HIDE & SNAKE, 1997

 

                                                                          

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