Writing on the Moon

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from the ABC set Junk

Writing on the Moon

I write on the moon becos it is the best place and has a man in it and is maked out of cheese. Scientists say they sent a man to the moon in 1969 to see what I was writing. It was all a hoaks. Their pickchers are all in black and white and the moon isn't that colour. Anyway, I would have seen them. I did see Wollis and Gromit once, and then the repeat.

On the moon I rite about important things, like whether anybody will ever walk on the Earth. I don't think they will, there is too much graverty and they'd all be squashed like squishy tomatoes. You'd need legs the size of elefunts just to stand up. If you jumped off the Earth you'd hardly get anywhere at all and it would hurt coming down. And there's all that horruble air everywhere. You'd have to wear space helmits to keep it out. I don't know why anybody would want to go there, except to stop sumboddy else getting there first.

Here on the moon we think we can see a man in the Earth, and we think it is made out of bacon. Soon Nasser will try to send a man to the Earth in a little tin box with fireworks on the bottom. They will talk in crackly voices that go: Witney Houston, we have a problem. It is number six in your problem book. It has to do with a man crossing a river with a goat. Can you help? Oh, and what is top left in the sudoku?

I have almost nearly finished my book. Books are very short on the moon, it's to do with science and space and being the best chef on telly and other complercated things. You can do a book in an hour. Noboddy ever reeds them.

It is very pissful on the moon. There's nothing much going on so nothing much to rite about. I invented a thing called a robery, where people take things that belong to sumboddy else. Moon dust, mainly. They could get it anywhere but they come and get it from my garding. I phone the perlice but there aren't any, and no phones either. That's as far as I've got with that story. I don't think robery will catch on.

In my garden I arrange the dust in little heaps. There's no wind becos there's no air, and no rain becos there's no water, and no robery because noboddy will voluntear to do it, so the dust stays where it's put. I contemplate the dust to investergate the nature of ennui, which is boardum for posh people. I've discovered that it's no more interesting than poor people's boardum, and every bit as boaring. Since starting this paragraffe I've already ritten a book about it. Noboddy will ever read it.

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Comments

Highhat | December 4, 2011 - 18:41

Very sweet- a few typos boardum for instance- though I dunno how its spelt

FTSE100 | December 4, 2011 - 18:59

Thanks Pia. The mis-spellings are deliberate. :)

scratch | December 4, 2011 - 19:10

FTSE100. Give up the day job.

FTSE100 | December 4, 2011 - 20:26

Funny thing, scratch, that's exactly what my boss said, although with a bit more swearing in it. ;)

oldpesky | December 6, 2011 - 11:02

What miss spellings?

Highhat | December 6, 2011 - 19:42

The only wun I cud fynde was boordum... watever...

rjnewlyn | December 7, 2011 - 01:22

Wonderful. And there should be more spelling like this on ABCtales - everyone's far too uptight about it all.

Cavalcaderl | December 7, 2011 - 17:37

new FTSE 100
Well deserved cherries!
Made me laugh! and the clever way
your in -st- er -gated the words,of spellings
you thought up,hoaks, and so on brill.
And kept the same spelling of the words on.
Certainly saves thinking is that spelling of
the word right. I often type word, without dictionary,think is that right!
I remember man got on the moon, I sat up all night,
writing all down father was resting then,said man
will never reach get on the moon, but did.
But to rite on the moon,be difficuklt.
I know spelt wrong. Maybe wee won't have to spell korrectley now? I had one brother nevr say the an those! always was fem an fos. Couldn't sound t -h's.
julie x

hilary west | December 10, 2011 - 21:35

Love the misspellings, there is something endearing about them. Great little piece that turns things inside out!

RachelPatricia | December 12, 2011 - 17:59

Oh, I do love a bit of FTSE in the afternoon!

'It is very pissful on the moon.'

- one of your best lines, in anything, ever ;)

Rachel xx

Christine (not verified) | December 18, 2011 - 23:38

Love it. Especially love the posh boredom. PLUS are those comments about the spelling for real?

scratch | December 19, 2011 - 00:27

"If you jumped off the earth it .... would hurt coming down". Superb FTSE.

slirpie125 | December 23, 2011 - 08:41

Hahaha, laughing hard in my head. Can never get myself to laugh out loud when it comes to reading funny things... Though I smile really big =)). Love the misspelled stuff. I'm with everyone else when they say that we should all misspell. Ok, starting... Now! No, not for me, but maybe...

Anyways, I really liked it, very funny. I don't know if it was meant to be funny, but is it really an autobiography?? And was the character supposed to be drunk or something?

Good post =))

Savannah