In “George’s Marvellous Medicine”, eight year old George’s gruesome Grandma declares that growing is “a nasty childish habit”.
Now as the one who has to fund the growth of an almost eight year old boy… well… let’s say she had a point.
Growing Boy
He is not even eight,
But he eats like a bear,
Pile it up on his plate –
In a blink, it’s not there!
So I hide all the snacks,
(He’d consume the whole pack),
But I cannot, I cannot keep up!
As his belly peeps out
Of his nearly-new tops,
And yet MORE ankle sprouts
From his trousers, I shop
Like a ninja on speed
For the clothes that he needs…
Yet I cannot, I cannot keep up!
And those telescope toes
Punching holes in each sock,
Mean I’ll pay through the nose
For more shoes… Should I lock
Up the fridge, nice and tight?
Feed him shrink-pills at night??
For I CANNOT, I cannot keep up!
© Nina Parmenter 2018
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