HEY DIDDLE DIDDLE

Nursery rhyme turned backward.

 

     “Why did the dish run away with the spoon?” Dreyfuss asked.

 

     Mandy shrugged. “I don’t know. Maybe they liked each other.”

 

     “Why did the dog laugh?”

 

     Mandy shrugged again. “I don’t know. Maybe it was funny. I’m going home now. It’s time for you to go to bed.”

 

     Dreyfuss decided to do something first. He grabbed a dish and a plastic spoon from “Frenchy’s Fried Chicken” and held them up before Spot. “They’re running away together. Isn’t that funny?”

 

     “Dishes and spoons don’t have legs,” Spot said. “They can’t run.”

 

     “And dogs can’t talk,” the dish retorted.

 

     “Tres droll,” said the spoon. They laughed.

 

     Spot pointed toward the window. “The moon is getting ready to jump over Bossie.” Then a fiddle marched in, dragging Puss along.

 

     “Diddle Diddle, Hey,” it said. “How about a tune?”

 

     Dreyfuss yawned. “No thanks. I’m going to bed.” Next time he’d watch “The Three-Headed Beast that Ate Catalina” instead of listening to Cousin Mandy  read nursery rhymes.

    

Reviews

[Will Neill]

Delightfully nonsenseical Marie.
Take Care.
Will

[Marie]

Thank you.

[Woody]

absolutely delightful, Marie! you probably knew I'd like it. right up my alley.

[Marie]

Yes; it's absolute nonesense, so I knew you'd find it absolutely delightful.

[Jimmy Yetts]

Delightful and most amusing, Marie!
Don't take this the wrong way, esteemed poetess, but you're quite good at writing nonsense.
(Doubt I'll ever get over having missed, "The Three-Headed Beast that ate Catalina.")

[Marie]

THanks. Perha[ps I'll write a story about the beast that ate Catalina.

[M.E.Lyle]

Very creative. It's been awhile since I've read some of your stuff. Still very entertaining, comical and inventive.

[Marie]

Thanks. It's nonesense, of course.

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hahaha this is really cute :)

[Marie]

Thank you.