You Are The Victim

• Helen Xiong, Grade 6
• Poetry
• 2014

A curled piece of sticky gum,
Stuck to a fly's little feet
Shake, shake, shake.
The gum is off.
It flies to a web.

Spider comes,
Little feet and hands stick tightly to the gum.
He shakes and shakes,
It doesn't work.
The gum drops onto a small slow creature.

It stretches the gum
From stone to shell.

A little buzzer comes riding on a motorbike,
Aha! Slingshot!

Yes!
They are free from the pink,
stretchy monster.