A Hunting Exercise

• Steven Parton, Grade 8
• Poetry
• 2018

Once there was a man tall and strong.
He went hunting with his friend from Dandenong.
As he held his gun so strong and proud he said, “I’ll shoot it now.”
He pulled the trigger with all his might, his friend got such a fright.
“Damn I missed,” he said, his mate said, “Can we go to bed?”