LIZ’S FIZZY

BY JOHN ODEY ADUMA

 

Momma got me a bar of Liz Fizzy ice cream

And told me to read the direction for use

Before starting to leak it,

Warning me to open the wrap slowly and with care,

Not “too fast, too “far”,

Nor in a hurry as a Noah running to enter the Ark.

 

But as she hopped onto the staircase and reached the landing,

With Tsunami speed, a sorta speed faster than lightening’s

In haste, tore I open the colourful ice cream wrap

And the ice cream with effervescent hissing sounds

Kept bubbling up in great rapidity.

 

Then let I out a scream:” Mummy! Mummy! Mummy!”

And Momma from the upper room above me

barked out a shout denouncing my nuisance

and asked in anger: “Junior, what! W-h-a-t, Junior!”

And I replied: “Mummy, it’s melting! Mummy! Mummy! It’s melting!”

Momma asked me again angrily and afterward entreated:

“What! I need my peace, J-u-n-i-o-r!”

“Let me have my peace – peace, please!”

“Let everyone have their peace, please!”

“Peace, peace, please, Junior!”

“This Kingdom sure needs peace,

certainty and tranquillity, Junior!”

 

And hurtling down, she asked: “Where’s your Liz?”

“Where’s your Liz ice cream, Junior?”

And in fear and trepidation, I replied: “Gone! Gone!”

“Just evaporated…evaporated and fizzled out, Mummy.”

With her arms akimbo, visibly frowning, Momma asked

breathing profusely and gasping for breath….

“What will you do then? What next…?”

And as I struggled to regain my composure,

My timidity and fear gave way to courage and boldness

And then I screamed out loud: General! General! General!

 

And mum hissing a sigh of relief and now with

a tinge of love in her eyes asked again:

“Junior, what do you want?”

“Just what do you want, Junior?

And I said:” Lollipoll. I want Lollipoll”

“Lollipop?”

No, mummy, Lollipoll

Then she too echoed: “I too want Lollipoll.”

“I too want Lollipoll and…and a Ballot Choco.”

Suddenly a figure emerged silhouetted against the wall,

And I screamed out: “Cummings! Cummings!

Look, mummy, Cummings! Cummings!

Mummy! M-u-m-m-y, Cummings!

 

-       OCTOBER 22, 2022.

BY JOHN ODEY ADUMA, PUBLISHER, VIGILANCE – THE WORLD’S LEADING SECURITY MAGAZINE.

 

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