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Crocodile Under The Table

There's a Crocodile under the table,
There’s a Crocodile under my chair;
I can feel it scrape next to my slippers...
Heaven knows how on Earth it got there.

I can feel it's rough scales on my ankles,
I can smell its wet skin up my nose,
I can feel it's long teeth grinning widely,
As it greedily eyes up my toes.

I really can't think how it got there,
Or how it got under my chair;
Perhaps it crawled out of the toilet,
And now it feels comfortable there.

Its moving across to Aunt Mable!
It's hungrily licking it's lips!
It might crunch her leg like an apple!
And spit out the toe-bones like pips!

Aunt Mable is looking towards me,
Her spectacled eyes peering ’round;
She’s cross 'cos I stole all her knitting,
And buried it deep underground.

The Crocodile's getting quite hungry,
It wants a plump leg for it's tea ;
It's terrible it's chosen Aunt Mable’s,
(But then, it could've been me.)

The Crocodile's mouth is now watering,
It's tongue is beginning to drool,
It's slavver is dribbling right down it,
And forming a ravenous pool.

It's jaws are beginning to open!
They're wrapped around Aunt Mable's leg!
Its going to sink all its teeth in,
And snap down it's jaws like a peg!

But wait! - she’s finished her dinner,
She's getting up out of her chair!
The Crocodile doesn't look happy:
Its snapped a large chunk of thin air!

There’s a Crocodile under the table,
And its hobbling it's way towards me;
It's licking it's lips and it's smiling:
I think that I'm next for it's tea!

waynedoz

@waynedoz

Six foot three bespectacled ginger-bearded designer and illustrator. I also poetify with rhymification. www.waynedorrington.co.uk

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Amazing and entertaining work once again. You a one skilled bearded man @Waynedoz

Thanks @Liza :) glad my beard and I thank you

Really enjoyed this! It flows beautifully! Btw was the use of 'bet' intentional or should it have been 'but'?

@shanwan awesome! Thanks for spotting the typo :) many many thanks - corrected

Haha this was amazing! I started to sing through it because it just worked. ;) great job!

Thanks @Emily_InspiresAll - thanks for singing :)

This is so cute! I got really into it :)

Thanks @lottiex :)

Check out Mike The Flea too @lottiex :)

No problem (: x

@waynedoz another legendary write my good sir!

Great as always.😄

@Emily_InspiresAll thanks mate :)

Thanks @Stablish :)

@Dovahkiin thanks dude :)

@waynedoz genius! Loved it! Thank you for making me smile 😃

Thanks @Paleflower :) glad you liked it. It's a biographical piece.

It's great! Inspired by Roald Dahl?

Not consciously @Nom - but I do love his work. It came one day when I was in a house where there was an ornamental crocodile under a side table and I actually said out loud "there's a crocodile under the table!" - I wrote the poem that evening.

Thanks @Nom by the way :)

@waynedoz interesting story! I love his work too, he had a twisted mind :)

@Nom he did indeed! James and the giant peach is a particular favourite :)

@waynedoz someone should be employing you to write these mate they are excellent!

Great poem😊

Thanks @Weirdwolf - wish someone would.. Oh well, back to the designing job :)

Thanks @rfletcher04 :)

One of the best on opuss!

Thank you @MissKristy :)

I'll have a pint of whatever you're on !

Lovely once again. ^_^

Thank you @Porcelyn :)

Awesomly origional

Thanks @deviltortoise :)

No problemo :)

Great fun!

Thanks @ckahn :)

agh, I love it!!

Thanks @rachbby1 :)

Strange, isn't it, that the only people called Mable are Aunts...

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