Katie Graham is a Scottish fairy tale and adventure writer. She lives in a beautiful dream world of her own
making. She's quite happy there, though. Please disturb any time you want, but only through Myspace
(www.myspace.com/catherineagraham)
making. She's quite happy there, though. Please disturb any time you want, but only through Myspace
(www.myspace.com/catherineagraham)
A Very Barking Halloween
'Twas a sunny Halloween
and the moon was high
when the rubber plant
started to bark.
I was just getting over
my terrible shock,
when the rubber plant
started to sing.
"Why are you barking?"
I said to the Plant.
"You're not a dog,
and you really can't sing."
"Find me a tail,"
he said to me.
"I can't be a dog
if I don't have a tail."
"You're mad,"
I told the rubber plant
"You'll never be a dog.
You're just a plant."
"I'm not," he said.
"I'm as sane as the moon.
Especially that triangular
blue one."
So I walked around
my rubber tree plant
Who I'd known for
over a year now.
Was it so wrong
for a leafy green plant
to want to dress up
for Halloween?
"No," I decided, "it's perfectly fine."
So I got him his tail
and some
floppy big ears.
And never before
or since, has there been
a happier (but very barking)
rubbery plant.
'Twas a sunny Halloween
and the moon was high
when the rubber plant
started to bark.
I was just getting over
my terrible shock,
when the rubber plant
started to sing.
"Why are you barking?"
I said to the Plant.
"You're not a dog,
and you really can't sing."
"Find me a tail,"
he said to me.
"I can't be a dog
if I don't have a tail."
"You're mad,"
I told the rubber plant
"You'll never be a dog.
You're just a plant."
"I'm not," he said.
"I'm as sane as the moon.
Especially that triangular
blue one."
So I walked around
my rubber tree plant
Who I'd known for
over a year now.
Was it so wrong
for a leafy green plant
to want to dress up
for Halloween?
"No," I decided, "it's perfectly fine."
So I got him his tail
and some
floppy big ears.
And never before
or since, has there been
a happier (but very barking)
rubbery plant.
Katie Graham
Note from the Author:
"This is one of my favourites because it's fun, but I think its only
right at this point that I make a confession. You may already have
guessed this, but its not an entirely true story. I don't really believe
that my rubber plant wants to be a dog. I just made it up one day
when I was thinking about what my rubber plant might think of
Halloween. I may have interpreted his personality entirely wrong.
Maybe he wanted to be Batman, you never know. Sometimes rubber
plants are quite hard to work out." ~ Katie
"This is one of my favourites because it's fun, but I think its only
right at this point that I make a confession. You may already have
guessed this, but its not an entirely true story. I don't really believe
that my rubber plant wants to be a dog. I just made it up one day
when I was thinking about what my rubber plant might think of
Halloween. I may have interpreted his personality entirely wrong.
Maybe he wanted to be Batman, you never know. Sometimes rubber
plants are quite hard to work out." ~ Katie