I remember the winter
the circus came to town.
A few kids skipped
school to see the show.
***
“Whoah!” We said, when
we saw all the empty desks.
“Luckeeee.”
***
But the next day, their
desks were still empty.
***
Then our teacher told us
that several of our
classmates were in the
hospital for poisoning,
but they would be OK.
***
Furthermore, she explained,
there was no circus in town.
And the children had all
gone to a house that was
being fumigated for insects.
***
“Whoah!” We all said.
***
“Luckeee.”
Maybe it was a flea circus? :D
Ten points, magickmermaid
Thank you, tref! I need all the points I can get! :D
Haha! That kid mentality makes total sense.
Thanks, Betsy
I always wanted to run away from home and join the exterminators.
Haha! Thanks, firewater
Top notch! This was excellent!
Thanks, Craig. I appreciate it!
As someone already pointed out, the children decided to flee the classroom in order to attend a flea circus. If any of the children took a dog with them, I suppose some of the fleas were able to escape the fumigation apocalypse.
Not to mention the elephants and the lions! Thanks, David
That’s what the kids think!
It is though! Thanks, Sadje
You’re welcome 😉
It’s a good thing others are smarter than I. Very clever.
Nonsense! It is in fact very dumb. But thank you for the kind words, Chel. I appreciate it.
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Thanks, dbb
This is one of your best ever!
Thank you so much for the kind words.
I laughed! Well, I consider myself Luckeee!
Hah! Thanks so much, Janny
Human cannonball
Lands on debuggers big top
The luckeee bugger!
Callback! Why didn’t I think of that? Thanks, COS
From the rumble seat of the great circus clown’s crowded little car, one couldn’t help but notice that the back-up cam had a bug causing it to face forward, so, from the driver’s seat, the great one couldn’t see the human cannonball coming to exterminate bugs.
“We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. We march backwards into the future.” – Marshall McLuhan
Ahh, but it’s so much more comfortable in the past.
Looking forward to the past being more comfortable,
next time I hitch a ride in the great clown’s rumble seat.
We got a whole month of school off for the 1980 Lake Placid Winter Olympics. Luckeee!!!
Luckee!
The cup is always half full when you’re a child! lol
That is very true!
Oh how I LOVE this! Good one!
Thank you, Diane
Haha! I love the way you wrote “Luckeee!” That’s exactly how we said it as kids.
Thanks for reading, SS
Brilliant!
Thank you, readandspelt, that is kind of you to say.
This is so good.
Thank you!
There is something festive and inviting, when you see a house tented in bright, billowing colors. For just a bit, those kids were so very luckeeee!! Until they weren’t!
Truer words …
Good