LITTLE DUCK...."LOST AND LORN"

 LITTLE DUCK...."LOST AND LORN"

It seemed
                we were
                               fated to have
strange sounds
                        sounds of nature
you might say
                      often heard in our
house

Like once't
                 a cricket cricked
                                           a lot but
we never found 'im
                              and then
a little bird
                chirped off and on
                                             for two
days until he like, died
                                 or something
Turned out, the little bird
                                      was our
smoke alarm battery,
                                goin' kaput.

Then it happened
                           a big-time worry
A little duck "lost and lorn"
                           (maybe from the
neighbor's pond)
                          was lost in our house
somewhere
                  we'd go searching and
he'd quit quacking
              this went on, half a dozen times
or more

In fact, it went on      and on.   then one day
      Ah, one day
                            the wife
said----
           I've lost my telephone.  call it for me
it'll ring, and I'll grab it      I called it for her

A QUACK QUACK QUACK was heard
          from under the couch
                               we found her phone
and our little "lost and lorn" duck

"Oh oh, I forgot--- I set my new phone's
               'ring'
      on Quack Quack Quack!" she said.

"And I've missed six calls!"
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BY MIL
May 11, 2015