Flaming Pterodactyl Pages
Did you see it?
It soared,
High up in the sky,
causing the blink of every eye,
loudly did it roar
scaling tree and mountains divides.
I hurried to my laptop keyboard
typed in google to describe this backdrop
on the wide New Jersey highway blacktops
but it failed to quickly reveal the hordes
sweeping along the fields and garden crops.
Slowly did the wifi load aboard
the internet was about to explode without stop
a million entries scanned the sky of blue imploded hops
there was no answer to Aesop's fabled scores
slipping into conspiracy and wild theories told with plots.
I went on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter chords
it appeared the whole world was shaking in its jitters
afeared of stone age times returned aflutter and aflitter
disbelief, malcontents, deluged populace discords
when suddenly my homework burned in emitters;
Right before me, flaming pages came to be crispy smores
a well-done ghost,
my homework all but blackened toast
that's my story and I'm sticking to it
a flaming pterodactyl ate my well-done homework
just to settle all of google's scores.
for John Lawless' contest
a flaming pterodactyl ate my homework
2/7/21
Copyright © DM Babbit | Year Posted 2021
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