Roller Skates
© 2007 By E.L. and C.E. Williams

By sun and moon and star
I searched the whole world wide
For a pair of roller skates
Just my shape and size.

The dangers that beset me
Were nothing to compare
With words like ‘out of stock'
An empty shelves stare.

I know it might seem strange
The measures I will go
Braving thunder storms
And mountains deep in snow.

The insects they have in Africa
Are quite huge you've heard
I once mistook a pair of ants
For an oversized buffalo herd.

The days are blistering hot
And the nights are freezing cold.
To survive in these elements
One must be very bold.

Once I didn't eat
For a week and thirty days.
Believe nothing you hear as to otherwise
To survive there are ways.

The rivers in Peru
Are hundreds wide and deep
Upon your person at all times
A snorkel you must keep.

The Antarctic is quite cold
And yes, but did you know
Once I ran a hundred miles or more
In temperatures twelve below.

London was so foggy
I scarce could see an inch
Yet falling from the London Bridge
Barely made me flinch.

Russia was a desolate place
And none had food to spare
So I dinned on stewed rats tails
And snails heads, quite rare.

In Japan I had trouble
Getting to the bus
And the nightingale kept singing
For I could not shut it up.

In Iraq there were these people
With big fat bloated heads
They called themselves Americans
They nearly shot me dead.

In way down south Alabama
They have this food called grits.
After eating three or four bowls of it
It made me very sick.

When visiting Brazil
Please do be aware
Of the cannibals that lurk
Here there and everywhere.

In Australia I met a crocodile
Who swore that he could talk.
He did his best to convince
During several very long walks.

In Mexico I found
The air is very dry
When breathing wear a surgical mask
Or certainly you will die.

In France the girls are thin
Or so you have been told.
But in truth they wear a size eighteen
Still somehow the rumor sold.

It was in San Francisco bay
That to reality I did awake.
There was no place in this world
To find my roller skates.