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The Sloth Upon My Couch

There's a sloth upon my couch,
This time it isn't me.
He slumps and grumps and munches snacks
While watching my tv.

His hair hangs like a floor mop,
His mouth can only mutter.
As through my food he snaffles,
All my bread and all my butter.

This sloth is really pushing it
He knows there are chores to do.
There's the dusting and the washing,
The bedrooms and the loo.

Shall I prod him carefully,
Shall I peel him off the couch?
I try to no avail though,
He simply mutters "ouch".

The lazy sloth is hoping
That his chores I will forget.
He can hope from here to forever
But forget them he'll regret.

I'm sure you all can sympathise,
You've had sloths of your own.
That teenage son who hangs about,
And does nothing round the home!

(although in fairness my resident teenager is a fab help around the home but I thought a poem saying that would simply not be believed!)

jojo72

@jojo72

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Hahaha!!so funny😂love this & can guess who hehe😏many will defo resonance with this!!sounds just like my teen..but like yrs is really fab😉😍xx

@qualified2dream Glad it made you chuckle hun 😊. I wrote a few animal based poems yesterday. Hope you enjoy them 😍

Excellent jojo I'm relating to this one! Mine's older and moved out now tho... Hohoho! 👍😘❤

@leelee101 now now, no gloating! 😉. So much for me giving the zoo a rest lol. Off to do mundane things now. 😜

Am sure will enjoy them.urs are really bril😄look 4ward to reading in between jobs,glorious jobs,not!!😜

I mean jobs not glorious..look 4ward to reading..c my brain is indeed fried & frazzled by all that darn rain!!!😝😘

Haha. Yes I have a teenage nephew sloth. 😖

Brilliant poem😄👍 my older brother is 32 and he's still like it lol 👍❤😘

@eddie12309 Sounds like the title to a b movie "Teenage Nephew Sloth" coming to cinemas near you! Definitely has a Godzilla feel to it! 😃😉

@minxyMolly 😄 Some just never change! Horrifying thought! 😳😜

@jojo72 'shudders' 😄 his 5yr old daughter is waaaay cleaner then him😜😄😉😘

Haha.... Coming to a house near you this summer... 😳

@eddie12309 hehe. Sounds good. Another poem in there somewhere!

😂😂😂 I have 3 teen nieces this describes them perfectly! 😘

@sjw my sympathies with their mother!

Could you send my hubby home...😂😂😂😂😂

@misslittleDHP LOL. 😂 Took me a sec to work that one out (it's been a long day). Lol. Made me chuckle though 😍

@jojo72 ☺☺☺☺☺

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