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When I Am Double Crossed

The new neighbor challenged my bullfrog, she challenged my pet flea. She challenged my happy T-Rex, but she forgot to challenge me. She smacked my baby’s monkey, she made me unnecessarily mad. She poked me in the eye, and she made my family all kinds of sad. She threw down her heavy gauntlet, holding none of her “awfuls” back. I gifted her to my python, and he ate her as an after dinner snack. Written: 11-22-2019 Contest: Standard Contest 165 Sponsor: Brian Strand

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Mahtab Bangalee

Date: 1/23/2019 10:04:00 PM

oh gifting PYTHON! undone all.../// beautiful poem

Caren Krutsinger
Date: 1/24/2019 1:39:00 AM

Thank you. I am in a silly willy mood.

M. L. Kiser

Date: 1/23/2019 5:36:00 PM

Oh that one is goooooooddddddddd!!!!!! My sises are splitting now.

Caren Krutsinger
Date: 1/23/2019 8:53:00 PM

I could not resist that last line, but I had to re-work in six times to get it the way I wanted it. I think I am happy now.

Eve Roper

Date: 1/23/2019 3:44:00 PM

Hahaha, great imagery and emotion... I beat it enjoyed the snack ..

Caren Krutsinger
Date: 1/23/2019 4:35:00 PM

Thank you Eve. I knew you would like it. It is so dancy prancy like you!

Andrea Dietrich

Date: 1/23/2019 3:10:00 PM

Great humor. You are a very creative lady, my friend. you find SO much to write about!!

Caren Krutsinger
Date: 1/23/2019 4:35:00 PM

I truly do have fun thinking up junk, Andrea. The humor I get from both parents.

Line Gauthier

Date: 1/23/2019 2:03:00 PM

Delightful, Caren.

Caren Krutsinger
Date: 1/23/2019 4:36:00 PM

Thank you Line. It came suddenly and spit itself into my brain.

Ann Gilmour

Date: 1/23/2019 1:56:00 PM

Caren that is great, especially the last line, which I was not expecting Haha... when we were first married we had a neighbour from hell, I would have loved to have fed her to a Python! Such an amusing write , I love your sense of fun, you are a breath of fresh air Caren, with kindest thoughts Ann xx

Caren Krutsinger
Date: 1/23/2019 1:59:00 PM

Thank you Ann. There are all kinds of half-eaten neighbors around here, all we have is a dog now, and she is so spoiled she wants her meat cooked, and I am talking medium well. It is horrible having to get rid of so many bodies. One time a conservation officer drove by and my dogs were all chewing on deer carcasses in the yard, they had dragged up from the neighbors. That was lovely also.