Big Bad Wolf

Big Bad Wolf

By, Carol Pelizzari

I didn't actually want to do it, promise,

Just, I was really hungry

And that little girl in the red

She looked so delicious.

Honestly, who let her out of the house - 

Looking like that?

Didn't she know that it's dangerous - 

Waving a red flag in front of the wolves.

I was so nice to her too,

I told her where the best flowers were.

She's lucky I found her first,

Others wouldn't have been so polite.

That lumberjack had no right

To cut my life in half,

To throw my budding sports career

Into the river.

"Big Bad Wolf"

They used to call me.

Those were the days.

Just one moment of hunger.

and now that's all gone.

She's dead but - 

I've got to live with it.