THE PLOTZ GOSSIPS
Old Farmer Plotz has a
farm with a pen—
With girl pigs and boy
pigs, in all, there were ten.
These pigs would all
gossip, about one another.
And that’s why they couldn’t get on with each other.
And Old Farmer Plotz has
some gossipy chickens,
Who’d babble’ bout
others while eatin’ their pickens.
****
Now one of the girl pigs
a lass named Caress,
Continually whispers to
piggy pig Fress.
“My gosh, that ol’ pig
Mr. Yarbelow Thud?
He eats and he burps
while he wallows in mud.”
Then yaky pig Bozo told
pig Slitherslog,
“That Old Porker Piggy
eats slop like a hog.”
****
Well back in the coop
there was plenty of talkin,
The chickens would gossip
while eatin’ and walkin’
And one of the chickens
name Lala Lakelle
Decided to gossip ‘bout
chick Bickybell.
“Disgusting how Bickybell
gobbles her feed.
She makes twenty piles
from small bits of seed.
And Mazie and Daisy and
Hallaballu,
Would cackle’bout Chug
Chug, the hen colored blue.
****
No stop to the gossiping,
morning till night,
Causing anger, hurt
feelings and sometimes a fight.
No sensible thoughts ever
entered their head,
Nonsensical
foolishness, found there , instead.
****
Then one day in August, in great summer’s heat,
The gossipy pigs and the
chicks got to meet.
It started at midnight, a
wind blew so hard,
And swirled a big
mess in the Plotz farmer’s yard.
It took off the fence between
pigpen and coop.
And blew it away in one
big howling swoop.
The next day the farm
lost its few bits of quiet.
The pigs mixed with
chickens ,caused chaos and riot.
With arguing, stomping,
and mud-sling mushing,
And chattering and
screaming and running and pushing.
The pigs and the chicks
should have gotten along,
Adjust to a very new
multi-mixed throng.
But pigs yelled at
chickens, and sadly, what’s more,
The pigs screamed at pigs
in a pig civil war.
In addition, the
chickens, it’s really a shame,
They acted like pigs,
just EXACTLY THE SAME.
Yes, all the chicks did, I
am sorry to say,
Was scramblin’,
manhandlin’ each other away.
The chicks and the pigs
made a horrible mess--
Could not get along, so much terrible stress!
‘Cause gossiping, ---that
they were able to do,
Insulting and mocking,
was all that they knew.
For how could they
possibly help one another,
When all they could do
was talk mean ‘bout each other.
****
Then Old Farmer Plotz said
to Pitsey, his wife,
“It’s the worst thing
that’s happened in all of my
life.”
Then both he and PItsey,
their son’s Lou and Ben,
Moved chicks to the coop
and the pigs to the pen.
They built a new fence
just to keep pigs apart,
From the chickens—the way they were kept at the start.
The fence thus became an
unfortunate curse.
It was bad when there was
one, without it much worse.
Did the pigs learn a
lesson, and what of the chicks?
Did they learn not to practice their usual tricks?
Did they change ‘round their habits, the ways of before?
Did they change ‘round their habits, the ways of before?
Did they learn not to
gossip or fight anymore?
The answer is “NO”, because day after day,
The pigs and the chicks
lived their usual way.
Of
gossipin', chattin' and chitterin' and
ventin',
and
whisperin', bad mouthin' and awful resentin',
and
cacklin’, and yakin’ and screechin’ and blabbin’,
and
mumblin’, and grumblin’ and terrible babblin’.
The pigs and the chickens
had learned nothing new,
But people can learn, change their foul point of view.
But if you 're a person
who gossips real well,
Then in with the pigs and the chickens you'll dwell.
Moral:The small-mindedness of gossiping about and meanness towards others
causes ill-will, hurt feelings and an inability to have peace and sanity.
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