Ladder Rung One

Ladder Rung One 
Ladder Rung One 
Tom Thumb and Thumbelina and baby thumbnail 
Tom is starting now to speak: 
   “listen to me Thumbelina baby {thumbnail} ewe listen tewe 
This old world has got me hypnotized and they stuck me on the bottom rung” 
Thumbelina answers him: 
   “Tom my husband please do not speak so rough in front of the thumbnail baby 
she does not need to knoe about the way of the world she is just a baby not yet in 
collage… 
Baby thumbnail is speaking baby talk in gibberish: 
“The world is mye oyster and eye am gonna shuck it 
Gonna learn to drive and gonna learn to party. 
Narrator me: 
Listen to me baby the old man still loves ewe the father of the daughter and the 
mother she adores ewe and the author of the poem. The ladder it is steep and 
hard to climb them all  the steps are hard please stay upon the bottom rung.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2007

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