Bigging It Up
The family sat (mum, dad, child and the cat)
as they did every Friday for lunch
no-one uttered a word, and all that one heard
was a fork or occasional crunch.
The lad stopped eating chips
wiped brown sauce off his lips
and said “mum, do you know that last night,
I opened my window to let in some air
and then had a terrible fright.
A beetle the size of an ironing board
dropped onto the foot of my bed
and above round the light, the size of a kite
a moth circled over my head!
I pulled up my blanket to under my eyes
then felt something was touching my hair
and saw, it was scary, a spider, all hairy
with legs the size of a deckchair's! “
“Now that's enough son”,
said his impatient mum,
“ Be quiet and empty your plate,
If I've told you once
I've told you a million times
never to exaggerate”.
Copyright © Viv Wigley | Year Posted 2017
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