Scurry and Flop

Scurry+and+Flop

Kelly Vu

Living in the tiny UK

Where people are vampires and don’t bask in sunny rays

A lurking presence seemingly close

With pouted lips going mua! Mua! Mua!

Not on land now, however, or ever

Wanting to escape from ravenous eyes

Still they pursue and take a jab

Swerving and flopping away and away

They prepare their boxes and spaghetti wires

Sitting and sitting and waiting for hours!

Oh agony! A tan they’ve gotten

Sneering and snorkeling at their pursuit

One of them hears and shoots up quick

”I foun’ it! I foun’ it!”

They scurry and toot and throw out their wires

The wire connects! Oh joy! Happy hour!

Reel it in! Reel it in!

Flippity-flopping but then just tiring

They cut it up to bits and put it in the fryer

And ate the fish with a hearty grin