I was climbing up
the lost property ladder
one day,
when the phone rang.
I stopped upon the very rung
that I had been stepped upon,
and answered the call –
not of Nature, for that would be rude –
no, the call upon my phone.
Luckily, I was a loan,
and could be easily paid off,
by and by – the rate wasn’t too high.
There was nobody there …
just a voice,
asking me questions;
questions that I didn’t know the answers to.
Such as:
How tall is the second tallest giraffe?
Where does a sea end and an ocean begin?
How many are there?
I put the phone down,
and realised I was twenty feet up –
like an upturned twenty-footed creature –
my phone defied gravity
and hung there in mid air …
for all of ‘no’ seconds.
I realised that trying to climb
the Lost Property Ladder
was something an Adder
would shudder at the thought of doing.
So, I climbed back down again.
What an adventure!
Graeme Sandford 