Dads Idiotic Idioms

• James Howe, Grade 6
• Poetry
• 2010

You’re in over your head.
My dad always said

Look before you leap.
He concreted in my head

Pick up your act
His constant nagging in my ear

Don’t jump to conclusions
Is all I would ever hear

But these days when I look back
“It was all water off a ducks back”


By James Howe 6R Rochedale state school