Choosing a winner for this week’s prompt of warning labels was no small feat. I had several favorites; so, did the only fair thing and picked the one that tickled my funny bone most.
And that was:
Warning Labels, by Hobbo ‘Smoking kills,’ Sally read on the packet As she bent down to pick up her litter So engrossed, she did not hear the racket Of the thirty ton lorry that hit her.
Hobbo won for the short, simple, abrupt, crushing humor of a poor, warning label-reader’s folly. Great work!
As I said, the others were no less humorous. Read for yourself (and learn from their tales):
Inferno, by TH Kerr In case of fire, throw this in first.
The Forbidden Fruit, by H.R.R. Gorman At night you’ll see me gently creeping With mom and dad hard a sleeping In through laundry room door. I open the…
Brilliant! Well done!
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Thanks Emma. First one!
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