Not My Bag

Denying he stole anything is he thief or victime

Not my Bag

 

It was not I who stole the bakery goods

For I never even stared at the chocolates

Nor did I eye a doughnut there in the woods …

No brown drool would make a fool of my wits,

But alas she said I could share the jelly inside

If I would just let it slip by accident

For she never had a cookie she didn’t divide

Nor even caramel candies to resent

But to be sure she said she’d share some frosting yet

If I didn’t let on she still had honeybuns,

So I made a pact with myself I’d take her bet

And say she had no such rolls and stand by my guns

Proclaiming she had stashed them all out back

And I did until I relented finding them all in my sack!

Reviews

[richom]

Clever, witty, and entertaining. I'm not sure if you are an accomplice or the innocent victim. With rhyme and meter, my particular preference in poetry. One minor flaw, at least in my view: the line about caramel candies did not seem to have the same rhythmic cadence as the others.

[John Fredrick Carver]

you say "to ma toe" I say "to may toe" for some it's "care a mull" for us up here it's "car mull" sorry if it messed it up for you.