Olima And The Big Problem

• Ethan Geall, Grade 2
• Poetry
• 2010

Hi, my name is Olima and I’m from a planet called Gona. It has big, spooky, and lumpy black rocks that are very hard. Sometimes I even fall over them. One day I saw a very bright thing. It looked unusual to me so I said to my friends “Can you please build me a ship?”
“Sure” said Donkey. Donkey is a short stick and Diddy Kong is a fat stick and Donkey and Diddy Kong are brothers.
The next day the big, black off-roader was built. I said “Thankyou. Do you want to come with me Donkey and Diddy Kong?” They both said “Yes”.
So off we went in our big black off-roader. “3-2-1- Blast-off!” I shouted and then “wheeeeeee” I whispered.
We landed on the mysterious planet. People were calling out “alien”, I said it too. Some people stopped and others were still doing it. The atmosphere was different to Gona’s, and that’s why I got a bit sick and ranches started to grow out of my head. My alien friends were fine, but I wasn’t. I saw a lot of junk around me, so I slowly picked up some of the junk. I went faster and faster, and two hours later it was all gone. “Bye!” I said “Blast-off!”
When we got back to Gona I opened the door of the off-roader but all of the junk fell out. “Oh dear” I said to myself. So I picked it up again, but then I thought of a different way to get rid of it. The off-roader runs on anything… “Whoa!” I shouted in happiness.
“What?” said Diddy Kong. “I can put all of the junk in the fuel tank for the off-roader” I said in happiness.
“Cccccccc” went the fuel tank. “The rubbish is now all gone.”
I yawned. “Let’s go to bed Donkey and Diddy Kong” I said quietly to them.
“Aaaaa” Donkey yawned.
BANG! I quickly jumped under my big bed. “Hello, son” Dad said in happiness, “What is that space ship out there?”
“It’s my off-roader!” I said. “Back to bed, Olima!” Dad said. “Goodnight, Dad” I said.