Holey Night
Twas the night before Christmas, I’d just caught a mouse
The cats licked their lips, we’ve got two in our house
But unless we humans are feasting on jerky
I’ve got to go outside and get me a Turkey
I got to the door and grabbed my wooly hat
My other half said, “Where you going in that?”
She told me that I’m going nowhere at all
Until I have fixed the big hole in the wall
“Hole?” I enquired, “what hole might that be?”
My wife wore a frown and she snarled back at me,
“The bloody great chasm as high as my knee,
That wall had two windows but now it has three.”
I told her, “That’s your fault, you said we’ve got vermin,
But what type it was took a while to determine,
I set traps for mice but I never got one,
But I won’t be beat, that's when I thought…
SHOTGUN!”
24 November 2022
Contest: The Night Before 3
Sponsor: Joseph May
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