~Absentminded Brent~
(Quatrains in mixed rhymes/meters)
When somebody looks for him,
they find that he's never there.
He's the kid that people never see
In the classroom,emptied, they find his chair.
When the teachers run the list of names,
They call out,in fact, for Brent.
But Brent he's always full of games,
He just came in and just went.
Who knows! to someplace no one knows,
So they miss him all the time.
He's so often in the come and go,
or wasn't there at all, anytime.
When he's at home his parents call him,
but Absentminded Brent, he's someplace else.
He's either fighting with Big Jim,
or bullying and scarying little Kim.
He hides anywhere and everywhere,
of his own shadow he's so very scared.
So he goes to his very secret place,
and prays nobody will find him there.
Dorian Petersen Potter
aka ladydp2000
copyright@2004
