BEASTLY TALES - AVALUNCH

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Welcome to Beastly Tales. Each has a message, a moral. All are meant to have an element of humour. Naturally, any names included do not depict real folk but are included as part of the joke.

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(As with Beastly Banter Beastly Tales is written and illustrated by Richard Hersel.)

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BEASTLY TALES

AVALUNCH

“He’s charged with deserting his post,”
“Simply went down to dine, when he was needed most!”
“Absent from his post, without any leave,”
“And then with a preposterous excuse, an effort to deceive.”
“He said he heard, on the ship’s broadcast system,”
“Ready for LAUNCH, oh, he could have kissed ‘em.”
“So hungry he was, after a long night watch,”
“If I was an officer, I could first have a Scotch.”
“So, said he, I quickly ran to the Mess,”
“To soothe hunger pangs, my hunger to redress.”

The sailor, whose name was Adolphious Crunch,
Though he had heard “Ready for LUNCH!”
The ship was at Battle Stations, a most serious matter!
To desert one’s post, as enemy guns did chatter,
Desertation, in a time of war,
Considered dereliction of duty, to the core.
Punishable by a penalty most severe.
Cancellation of one’s ration of beer!
And, by the way, that’s not the lot,
In addition, one could well be shot!

Adolphious Crunch, hearing this, became most perturbed,
Breaking down, sniffling, he blubbed and blurbed.
“I can not stand the thought of a Court Martial!”
“And to a Firing Squad I’m surely not partial,”
“So, if it’s alright with you,”
“I’ll just finish my lunch, Oh, what a to do!”

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