With Debbie Chilton

Author and Poet

Thursday, January 19, 2012

The Smart Slug


Scottie’s Shade

Scottie was sizzling in the summer sun
Dripping with slimy slug sweat
When an idea slowly slid into his head
Scottie scaled the slide of a lettuce leaf
Skilfully placing his snout as not to shroud the leaf
And sailed half way down and then
Leaped to safety creating himself a sun-shade

Once he had shaken the soil off
That sprayed all over him as he spatted on the ground

Scottie slowly scrabbled back on to his sun-shade
And went to work scribbling a silver slim sign
Sunnies, slip, slop, slap and shade! Thanks!
Finished he took a slippery slide back into the soft soil
Using a slice of rotten squash for a sun bed   
Taking a slug nap under his sun-shade
In the scorching afternoon sun

Debbie Chilton © Copyright, 19 January 2012


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