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This is my attempt to write a humourous poem. Its my first attempt so its not that great.

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Hello, I’m Kerry, can you help me please,
I left my purse, up in the gum trees.
They chopped my forest, and my mother got shot,
Now I have to wear shoes coz this concrete’s so hot-

Scratch that-
I’m boiling alive in here!
Whoever said marsupials were warm-blooded-
wins understatement of the year!

But I must plough on-
I swing my bucket through the air,
Skip,
and sing “Please Don’t call me a Koala Bear”

Some kids laugh and some kids scream,
when I invite them home to eat gumleaf ice cream.
If they’ve broken a limb, I say, Be careful next time,
Kenny always warned me- use four paws when you climb

Of course there’s the teenage boy who told me to die
and who called me a possum and made me cry,
but also the child who defended me,
so heroically and tenderly.
And the guy in stubbies just laughs a lot
and tells me to watch Pizza and Idiot Box

(Now I need to hide to have a drink,
or some junior sceptic will start to think
They’re the only one to ever discover
It’s a zipper not a scar from being run over.)

And muscly men will show their hugging side
and pictures’ll show tourists grinning wide,
and prove the existence of giant fauna
Like you’d only find in urban Australia.

posted by Foodfairy @ 2:58 PM