Friday, September 22, 2006

Enigma by Sara Mansfield

One boy in one bathtub, one hour or more…
With great trepidation I open the door.
The bath towel’s soaked, and the wall’s dripping wet;
The floor and the rug make a swampy vignette.

In the soggiest, squishiest, squashiest land,
There is one thing I never could quite understand…
With buckets of water all over the place,
How under the sun does it all miss his face?

2 comments:

Qaptain Qwerty said...

Interesting poem. I imagine the boy's face is still dirty with all the soil or food stain before he got into the tub an hour earlier.

Francia said...

Precisely!I should have included a drawing of the boy in a tub with a dirty face but I wasnt able to do that! Its really cute and hillarious.