(350) Boys Will Be Boys (Children’s Poem)

Jack took his magic top hat off the rack. He placed it over a pretty old rat The rat jumped around and around Jacks friends saw the jumping hat. Jack said it was magic, a real magic hat. Jacks mom came home, she saw the Jumping hat, thought it was just a trick. How clever Jack must be. Jack told her it was a magic hat and went outside to play Come get your hat his Mom exclaimed as she bent down to pick it up. She saw the rat, her mouth opened wide, as she screamed and screamed and screamed. She fell back on the table, a chair fell over. Her hand knocked the kettle off the stove. She tried to get up but kept slipping down Screaming all the while. Jack and his friends heard all the commotion and ran into the woods. Jacks mom got up made it to the door slipping again and again, finally fell out the door onto the wooden steps, losing her footing and down she went, down those rugged old steps falling to the ground. She knew they heard every sound. Yelling over and over for Jack to come home but she never saw his face. Her heart beating faster and faster as she took deep breaths trying to contain herself. Then she began to laugh realizing how foolish she must look. A grown woman afraid of a little old rat. She relaxed and thought, my my boys will be boys. She stood up and brushed herself off, went back into the house and thought I’ll need to find that rat trap for that big old ugly rat. She laughed and laughed and laughed. Written: July 12,2007