Cookie Villany (A true story.)

[Scube]

This verse is just for fun and is based on an incident in my life.

I was on the couch convalescing from an illness when my wife placed a plate of freshly baked cookies on the piano near me. She told me that she had to leave and I was to watch and make sure the kids didn't eat them. Here's what happend:

Prolog:
Pastries have for ages been
The mirth of boys, the girth of men.

Ah Alchemy! Thy virtue tried!
I thought, I thought the legend lied
Until I saw what farm and field
And my love's pestling could yield.

'Twas I commissioned to protect
And guard the goods from ill effect.
But here sit I dishonored be:
I slept! (Did foul play render me?)
For while I slept and snored, unseen
Four villains snitched the platter clean!

[PrinceMyshkin]

This verse is just for fun and is based on an incident in my life.

I was on the couch convalescing from an illness when my wife placed a plate of freshly baked cookies on the piano near me. She told me that she had to leave and I was to watch and make sure the kids didn't eat them. Here's what happend:

Prolog:
Pastries have for ages been
The mirth of boys, the girth of men.

Ah Alchemy! Thy virtue tried!
I thought, I thought the legend lied
Until I saw what farm and field
And my love's pestling could yield.

'Twas I commissioned to protect
And guard the goods from ill effect.
But here sit I dishonored be:
I slept! (Did foul play render me?)
For while I slept and snored, unseen
Four villains snitched the platter clean!

Shades of Alexander Pope! - or whomever you may have had in mind as a model for this gracefully turned example of metre and rhyme at its light-hearted comic best!

[ampoule]

Very cute story, cleverly told, and were they chocolate chip? :)