Get Your Ducks In A Row!

December 7, 2011 at 4:51 pm · Filed under Poems, Some truth to it, Weird stuff ·Tagged Charles L. Mashburn, get your ducks in a row, good old days, http://bluebellbooks.blogspot.com/2011/12/short-story-slam-week-16.html, laughter, poem, poetry, writer

Here’s another poem I’ve posted before, most of you have probably seen it, but some of you might have missed it. It’s one of those silly things that just popped into my head when I heard the title one day. We’ve all been there, and done this, in one way or another, so I hope you get a chuckle out of it. It was a natural for the Bluebell Books Short Story Slam this week, so here it is again. I intend to write a story to go with the prompt sometime today or tomorrow, too.

Ducks In A Row

 

Get your ducks in a row, the boss yelled

You best your stuff in one sack

Get your act together, he screamed

Or tomorrow we won’t need you back

 

Well, I had no idea what he meant

So I started to pace and fret

I don’t own any ducks, I thought

My predicament caused me to sweat

 

Noon came around and away I flew

Drove fast to the nearest mall

Purchased a book of duck tricks

And a quite expensive duck call

 

Raced out of town to lake

Used the duck call that cost twenty bucks

Was worth it, for out of the reeds

Came a waddling, six little ducks

 

I’m quacking up, I thought to myself

For there wasn’t another soul there

I got out the book of duck tricks

And duck act I began to prepare

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I tried everything in the trick book

But them ducks seemed none too bright

Then the answer came suddenly to me

Above my head shone a bulb of light

 

Drove back to the office post haste

The monkey was near off my back

Told the boss, they’re not in a row, but

Would you settle for six ducks in a sack

 

Copyright © 1998 C. Mashburn

 

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