Reading Lessons

We must congratulate Betty

who's teaching her son to read.

She uses alphabetti spaghetti

that he does devour at speed.

Sometimes he gets it wrong

with some letters that he ate;

he will recognise a diphthong

but confuse a B with an eight.

He swallows a lot of vowels

heaped on a battered spoon

that he handles like a trowel.

He'll start on spelling soon.

He is clever and he can see

that the name of the website

mum likes begins with A B C.

Betty confirms that he's right.

He then reads the letters D E F,

believes that what is meant is

that one who can't hear is deaf

but he's soon corrected of this.

One thing he finds confusing

is whether a Z or an S fits

the word 'characterising'

(how it's spelt by the Brits).

It is a realistic assumption

he will be a professor soon

but with pasta consumption

he ls looking like a balloon.

© Luigi Pagano 2021