A Sample Of The Story!

(story in progress)

"I must have miscounted, I guess I’m still groggy,

that must be the reason my socks are all soggy!"

He hurried straight home to recheck the amount

of the steps on the pathway that he tried to count,

but quickly he learned with his second attempt

that the problem he’d found wasn’t something he’d dreampt!

"We’ve got a big problem, that is what I’m thinking.

It certainly seems that our city is sinking!!

The water is rising! There’s no place to hide!

Soon every house will have minnows inside!"

Then just at the point when he thought all was lost

and nothing could save them, no matter the cost,

three children passed by, which is often the case,

as they danced down the beach to their best swimming place.

Digger O’Doodle and his friend, Ginger Bread,

and Digger’s small brother, whose nickname was Red,

were wondering why the old man was so scared.

They stopped and they asked him because the all cared.

The old man explained with a voice filled with doubt

of the problem he’d found and what it was about,

but the children, it seems, didn’t quite feel that way.

They felt there was someone who would yet save the day.

Mayor Noah Tall would know just how to act

when presented with this most disasterous fact!

When the kids and the fisherman reached City Hall

the Mayor grabbed the phone and he made a quick call.

A big meeting was held and the whole town was there

with the gathering led by our "know-it-all" Mayor.

Every now-nervous neighbor was afraid for thier life!

The fear and the tension could be cut with a knife.

The whole room was silent with one thing to blame

Everyone thought their ideas were lame!

Then the silence was broken, a strange bit of luck,

by someone outside in a rattle-trap truck.

A strange looking fellow sprang right through the door

yelling, "I have the thing you are all looking for!

In the back of my truck I have something quite magic

and it might be the answer to your problem so tragic!"

When he tore off the tarp the whole crowd was in awe

of the awesomly interesting object they saw.

It was kind of a box with a very tight spring

connected with bolts to a hammerlike thing.

It had powerful pullys and buttons that blink,

and even a place for an internet link!

Stuck to the side could be read a small caption

which read, "Do not throw things into this contraption!"

The crowd was quite hopeful as the stranger explained

the mysterious device that his pick-up contained.

"I’m Doctor Wise from the State Crisis Center

and I am a certified, world-class inventor."

"I think you will see when you sit in my booth

that what I am saying is only the truth.

Push the button inside and you cannot deny

that your problems are gone in the blink of an eye!"

"It has only been tested on a few rats of mine

but I think it will work on you people just fine."

The townsfolk in deep desperation agreed

to form a long line with the Mayor in the lead,

Everyone watched with their eyes open wide

as the curtain slid over and the Mayor stepped inside.

The smell of fresh plastic was filling his nose

And the cool feel of steel could be felt by his toes.

The stretch of a spring and the grind of a gear

Were some of the noises he swore he could hear.

He reached for the button and pushed it in tight

then the hammer swung down with increadible might!

It thundered down hard like a swift bolt of lightning

konking his crown with a force that was frightening.

The Mayor wobbled out with an ear-to-ear smile

For his mind was now rattled, at least for a while.

The people could tell by the crease in his hair

that the problem was gone in the brain of their Mayor.

If the problem was gone, it was certainly solved!

That was the thought of the people involved.

One at a time they were bonked on the bean

With a whack from the grand problem-solving machine!

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