BEASTLY TALES

THE BOA CONSTRICTOR

So his mummy organized an expedition,
That soon captured a Boa worthy of exhibition.
“That’s just what I want”, said the fat kid,
As he grabbed it out of the box where it hid.
“A Boa Constrictor is just the thing”,
“It’s the prince of pets, in fact the king!”
So the Boa lived in their garden grand,
Hiding in bamboos near a particular stand.
It barely survived on mice and rats,
So when it saw Bret with all his fats,
It thought, if I could swallow him quickly,
I could then hibernate without getting sickly.
And so it rapidly wrapped it’s enormous length,
Around Bret’s neck, with considerable strength.
Bret turned red, and then quite blue,
As the Boa constricted, wouldn’t you?
At last, when Bret went very limp,
The Boa had to work out how to swallow the blimp.
Snakes have a dislocating jaw,
And so, the most unusual thing you saw.
The Boa, ever so slowly, did devour,
Poor Bret, still clutching a flower,
That he had grasped so desperately,
As the serpent began to prepare his tea.

Now, in case you may be given to wondering,
How the serpent did fare, after it’s plundering.
Don’t now be concerned, or at all worried,
For the snake, his digestion, he never hurried.
And when, in a month or two,
It’s hunger pangs did renew,
There was always Bret’s mum and dad,
Plenty more calories to be had!