Miss Straberrys Cat And The Bouncing Rat

• Sarah Fusinato, Grade 6
• Poetry
• 2008

once their was a bouncing rat,
long and lean and very fat,
lean and fat and fat and lean
or somewhere halfway in between,
who chased miss straberrys barking cat
round and round and round and that
so annoyed the barking cat
it humped and scrumped and clawed and spat
which so annoyed the bouncing rat
it bared its teeth and muttered scat,
which so annoyed the awful cat
it caught and ate the savage rat
which so annoyed the bouncing rat
it gnawedupon the barking cat.
then they both began to fight
all day long then all the night
with kick and scratch and claw and bite until their legs were so confused and bodies torn and so contused,
one could not see if which or what were barking cat or bouncing rat.