Bring To Life- the Clothes Peg
When Crocodiles shoal in a watering hole they're collectively known as a 'float',
why not include clothes pegs, (though you won't lose a leg
and they never been near a boat)
They hustle and clatter , skins not coated in batter, in different hues, green, yellow, red,
there's a blue one, poor thing with a twisted wire spring
that's unused, I assume that he's dead.
From a bag under the stairs they will come out in pairs
although sometimes they will hunt in threes
when bedsheets they attack, though their jaws may just crack
when it fights them all off in the breeze.
If encountering a red one, for sure, you're a dead one,
it nips at your fingers and toes,
and when the timing is right it's a horrible sight on the tip of a young child's nose.
I can honestly state that they sometimes migrate
not a lot, since they always get caught,
but please, take it from me, that I can guarantee- on washdays you are always one short.
11th April 2018
For contest 'Bring to life', sponsor Shadow Hamilton
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