A Squawk Too Far

I love my green and feathered friend a bushel and a peck, * But there was one occasion when I could have wrung her neck! She's normally so well-behaved, but on that fateful day When Aunty Pat came round for tea, I heard my parrot say: 'Old fatty Aunty Patty', 'Aunt Patty is a bore!' With that my red-faced Aunt stood up and stormed out through the door! I could have killed that parrot, we didn't speak for days. I glowered at her through the cage and confiscated maize. I tend to watch my words now, and Polly curbs her bill The last I heard, my Aunty Pat had cut me from her will! FINAL REVISED VERSION 16/03/19 'Green Humor Rhymes, Old Or New For Prizes Poetry Contest' Sponsored by Carolyn Devonshire * For anyone not familiar with this expression it means : ' a lot; a great amount' and was famously used in a song from the broadway musical 'Guys and dolls'. The last word seemed particularly fitting within this context!