HIDE & SNAKE
Hiss! Hiss! Hiss!
Chrissy shan’t miss
her pet snake.
It slithered and it wriggled
along,
long,
on,
that wicked fellow John.
It looked at her longingly,
Chrissy’s pet snake
Hiss hiss! He he!
She hit it with a broom
in the living-room,
Chrissy’s pet snake.
‘For Pete’s sake!’
(for that was his name)
‘You’ve squashed his brain!’
I yelled at her,
though not deterred
a jot.
‘I should have shot
both you and the snake,’
she said to me.
Ha ha! He he! Hiss hiss!
Chrissy shan’t miss
her pet snake.
hiss!
hiss!
hiss!
hiss!
hiss!
hiss!
hiss!
hiss!
bah!
humbug!
hiss!
hiss!
hiss!
hiss! [1997]
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