Love in Hexasyllables XLVIII: Hoodlum
When they arrested him,
Still sated on grandma
And lying in her bed,
He protested at once
And called it entrapment.
For if the little girl
Had never mentioned her,
He certainly would not
Have thought to eat her up.
Yet no one believed him.
Months later, she wrote him
In prison, announcing
Her impending wedding
To the young woodcutter
And thanking him for it.
How else could she have met
Such a nice man, always
Taking grandma baskets
And going nowhere else?
The wolf was horrified.
Still sated on grandma
And lying in her bed,
He protested at once
And called it entrapment.
For if the little girl
Had never mentioned her,
He certainly would not
Have thought to eat her up.
Yet no one believed him.
Months later, she wrote him
In prison, announcing
Her impending wedding
To the young woodcutter
And thanking him for it.
How else could she have met
Such a nice man, always
Taking grandma baskets
And going nowhere else?
The wolf was horrified.