Moon waited until 9:30 pm to drop a little homework horror on me. If you’re wondering why I have homework, you obviously don’t have an 11 year old drama queen. Anyway, she had to write two poems, news report poems whatever those are, about Australia’s beginnings as a penal colony. To make matters worse, she had to use the who, what, when, where, why format.
I used all of my literary skills, which let’s face it, are CONSIDERABLE, to help her pen the award-winning poem below:
They sent John David to Syndey
For kicking a man in the kidney
It was 18 68
and the need for labor was great
So he spent three years building a chimney
Now you know why I don’t write picture books.
I would not want to hire him as a mason. I never knew he moved so fast.
failing grade for not rhyming “G’day mate” with 1868.