Trumpty Dumpty
By well-wisher
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"We're going to build a giant wall around Toy Town", he said to his followers, "To keep out everyone we don't like. Then we'll make Toy Town great again".
And he set them all to work building the wall.
What he didn't tell them, however, was that when they had built the wall. He was going to lock them all out.
"Thats why I'm having them build it from the outside", he said to himself, smirking, "When they're finished they won't be able to get in themselves. Then we'll make Toy Town into a giant golf course for me and my rich friends".
But there was one Toy in toy town who was not convinced by Trumpty, a bear called Bernie Panda.
"We shouldn't be building walls between people", he said, standing up at one of Trumpty's hate rallies, "We should be bringing walls down between people; between people of different kinds and between rich and poor".
When Trumpty heard Bernie Panda speak, however, he got angry.
"Throw that Panda out", he shouted and, immediately, Trumpty's followers seized Bernie panda and, picking him up, threw him out of the rally.
But Bernie didn't give up.
As Trumpty's followers were building their wall; Trumpty gazing down at them and laughing from high up in his castle called Trumpty Towers, Bernie Panda kept pleading with them trying to stop them building.
"Please", he said, "Trumpty is just using you. He doesn't care about you. You have more in common with the people you're trying to keep out than a billionaire like Trumpty Dumpty. They're poor like you. They should be your brothers not your enemies".
"Hmmph!", said Trumpty Dumpty angrilly, seeing Bernie far below, "Its that Panda again. I had better deal with him or he'll ruin everything".
So Trumpty summoned his hit woman, Sarah Penguin. At first she thought the toupee on his head was an animal and she tried to shoot it and so Trumpty had to hide behind his desk but when he'd convinced her it was just a toupee, then he sent her to get Bernie Panda.
"This will show you where he lives", he said handing her a map, "Go to Bernie Pandas house and eliminate him".
Fortunately for Bernie, Sarah Penguin couldn't read a map and so instead of going to his house she ended up in Afghanistan where, because of her extreme right wing views, she became very popular with the Taliban.
It didn't matter though because, however Bernie Panda tried to convince them Trumpty's followers just wouldn't listen, they kept building until finally all of Toytown was surrounded by Trumpty's wall.
Then, when the last brick was in place, Trumpty slammed the gates of the wall shut in their faces.
"Ho! Ho!", he said standing on the top of the wall and mocking them, "I've fooled you all. Now only the rich people can live in Toy Town".
The poor Toys who had built the wall didn't know what to do, Trumpty had tricked them into walling themselves out of their own land and now they couldn't get in.
But then Bernie Panda spoke up.
"Don't give up hope", he said to the other toys, "If you had the power to build this wall then you have the power to tear it down".
And so thats what the Toys did.
Picking up their picks and shovels, the Toys started to hammer at the wall until, finally, the wall started to crack and when it did it came tumbling down.
Unfortunately for Trumpty Dumpty, because he'd been standing on the wall he came crashing down with it and was broken to pieces.
"You're fired", he shouted at them angrily as he lay shattered on the ground, "You're all fired".
But no one was listening to him. They were just happy to have their land back again and after that they did what Bernie Panda had said, they started bringing down all the walls that kept people apart; rich and poor; black and white; all people of different kinds.
And when they did that they did make their land great; greater than it had ever been.
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haha - bang up to the minute!
haha - bang up to the minute! Well done well wisher
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Very deserving pick of the
Very deserving pick of the day. Let's hope, if he does get to build his wretched wall, the people will evenutally react in the same way as those sensible toys!
I just loved the bit about Sarah Penguin wanting to shoot his toupee. Brilliant.
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Interestingly told allegory
Interestingly told allegory Something deeper here than desperate physical walls of various times – 'they started bringing down all the walls that kept people apart; rich and poor; black and white; all people of different kinds' many metaphorical walls built all the time, breaking them down seems to need a reaching out to understand those we don't understand, and trying to build bridges over walls. Rhiannon
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Effective and entertaining
Effective and entertaining satire! I enjoyed this.
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