Enough To Curl Your Hair

I'll ask you kindly, if you'll please!
Don't tell a soul, my odd disgrace!

Without a doubt, it is my shame...
I cannot tame, my tangled mane!
Did you know....my wayward hair does not play fair?
It's almost more than I can bear!

Well, now you know, my strangest woe
My locks will grow two feet a night!
An awful plight,.... this frightful sight
is not a joke, no laughing matter!

And if I stuff it, in a hat.....
it looks like rats have raised a litter!

Unless I tuck it in my hat...
the cat attacks, jumps up my back
and digs it's claws into the thatch!
It isn't easy, to detach, she makes her bed
and sleeps the night upon my head! 

It weighs a ton....and it's no fun
to keep my head upon my shoulders!

By afternoon my neck gets sore
it must be cut each day by 4:00
to keep from sweeping up the floor! 
Such a chore...that I abhor! 
I can't ignore my tangled locks
that strangle ankles and my socks!
And then I trip....and then I fall

                      and that's not all......
                      but must' not bore you any more...!

                      Keep my secret, if you please!!
                      It isn't easy being me !!!


          
                                 




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Dietrich Avatar
February 17, 2012 at 9:44 AM
hahahaha, I hope this one scored super high. BIG congrats.
Sweetheart Avatar
February 16, 2012 at 9:45 PM
congrats Carrie on a marvelous win for this masterful creation luv..
Johnson-Saunders Avatar
February 15, 2012 at 10:08 PM
Congrats on your win, Carrie! I have to say, yours is the most creative of the winners. Blessings, Rhonda
Ronthorpe Avatar
February 15, 2012 at 4:39 PM
Carrie, another wonderful write. Congrats on winning 3rd place in Susan's contest.................S.Ronthorpe
Pettit Avatar
February 15, 2012 at 1:59 PM
Congratulations on your win Carrie.
Johnson Avatar
February 15, 2012 at 12:11 PM
Really cute Carrie. My hair does seem to grow that fast too. It is perfect length one day and horridly long and limp the next. Congratulations on your win. Love, Joyce
Brown Avatar
February 15, 2012 at 11:40 AM
Congratulations on your super placement in Susan Burch's "Ridiculous Self Exaggerations" contest Carrie. Love, Carol
Tams The Golden Girl Avatar
February 15, 2012 at 10:52 AM
Congratulatons Carrie sounds like my hair xx
Poet Avatar
February 15, 2012 at 8:48 AM
LOL....enjoyed it very much Carrie.Congratulations on your win in Susan's contest.
Andresen Avatar
February 13, 2012 at 5:36 AM
Sweet and funny Carrie,good luck to you in the contest. - oxox love from Anne-Lise
Pettit Avatar
February 12, 2012 at 7:54 PM
Hello Rapunzel. While reading this, I could hear the late Edward Everett Horton narrating one of those 'Fractured Fairy Tales' cartoons. Good entertaining write.
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