BLUE GOOSE

Once upon a night time
I had such a silly dream
all about a blue goose
who would only eat ice cream.

If you can just imagine it;
the goose wore a strawberry bonnet,
and only ate strawberry ice cream
with peanut butter on it.
It’s the only kind that she would eat.
That goose was really fat,
too fat to fly or even try
if you can imagine that;
A blue goose in a bonnet
eating a mountain of ice cream,
and she didn’t even use a spoon,
a lack of manners it would seem.

She sat in the ice cream parlor
eating triple giant sundaes.
The only day she didn’t eat them
was when the parlor closed on Mondays.
Monday was when she did her laundry
and washed her feathers clean
from those drips and drizzles
she got eating mountains of ice cream.

I must say that blue goose
did draw quite a crowd,
and I was there among them
to watch this goose so well endowed
and eating all that ice cream…
I woke up laughing right out loud;
I was even laughing in my dream,
laughing until I woke myself
over such an absurd scene.
A blue goose in an ice cream shop
was such a silly dream.

Annette Bromley