Just Dessert

As I lowered the knife it  grew bright

But I wasn’t frightened in the slight

Out fell the seeds of strife

As I cut it with a knife

I ate a seed just one

I felt like I weighed a ton

I stumbled and tripped on a curtain pole

And fell into a giant hole

I shouted “Help me”

Luckily my sister managed to see

She pulled me out

Luckily at me she did not shout

She said “What did you do?”

I said “The pumpkin is cursed, I tell you”

She said it was all nonsense

“I’ll prove it or my name isn’t Clarence”

So she sliced a piece of it and

Looked at me real grand

She ate it and fell

I ran around pell-mell

And my brother, Tim,

Well, guess what happened to him

He too fell and he 

Said “I cannot see”

Clarence woke and could not hear

This I would not bear

I threw the pumpkin

And said “to get you, I committed what sin?”

And to my surprise from the pumpkin appeared

A blurry image, then my sight cleared

There appeared a young girl

She was holding a small pearl

Give it to brother or sister, one

And they will appear as bright as a sun

So I took the pearl and I asked

Why with this I have been tasked?

So I ran back to the field and grabbed another

 Pumpkin for my sister

When I cracked it open

Out fell seeds, exactly ten

A small child walked out

Very short and quite stout

She said you did not give me

Sufficient time to grow you see

You must eat at least one seed

Then on your misfortune I can feed

So I said some prayers

And cut through the layers

I put a seed on my tongue

And fell on a rung

I got soil and worms in my pants

And got bitten by red ants

Then my bad luck steak wore off

I merely went and at it scoffed

I broke it and out came

A young girl, the exact same

I got the pearl from her

And gave it to my sister

They both ate them

And said “ahem”

They were better

I sent my grandma in India a letter

About the day’s crazy events which

Were into a poem switched

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