<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Go Figure</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 13px;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">I mean, what were they thinking?</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Hansel and Gretel went into the forest, </p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>dropping breadcrumbs </p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>so they could get back home.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Did it ever occur to them <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>that forest beasties might eat them?</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">And did.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 13px;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">What about </p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>pease porridge hot</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>pease porridge cold</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>pease porridge in the pot</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>nine days old?</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">I don’t care if you eat </p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">yellow pea soup that’s been sitting</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> in the pot for nine days</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>hot <i>or</i> cold</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">you’re likely to die!</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 13px;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">And Jack and Jill!</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">How often do you climb <i>up</i> </p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>a hill to the well?</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">And who sent their kids<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>up a hill so steep</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>that coming down</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>with a full bucket of water,</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-indent: 36px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">one fell down and broke his head open</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>and the other just flat fell down!</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Somebody call C.P.S.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 13px;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Who <i>left</i> that egg on the wall?</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Why would someone abandon an egg </p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>after going to the trouble of naming it?</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Of course</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Humpty Dumpty fell off!</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Eggs roll. </p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">And can you imagine the mess </p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-indent: 36px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><i>all</i> the king’s horses and <i>all </i>the king’s men made</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>trying to put Humpty together again?</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">What they made was </p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>scrambled egg with shell fragments.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 13px;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">I’m just sayin’.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 13px;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> - Sashana Kane Proctor</p></div></body></html>