Issue 4 2010 - Learning and teaching portal - Victoria University

Fudge
by Initially NO
I was once given a teddy bear
Whose name was Fudge.
I didn’t much care for the bear.
But I took him with me
When I left that place
Because the fellow
Who gave him to me
Wanted to stick marshmallows
Up Fudge’s behind
And get him to cross borders
And stuff. And I thought, stuff that
You’re not doing that to Fudge.
So I took the bear with me
When I left that house
And put him in the cupboard
Of my new home.
Bit cruel, sticking him in there
All squashed in. But anyway…
Wasn’t until sometime later
That I took him
To a nearby opportunity store.
They looked at Fudge
And said there was
Something spooky about the bear.
And I said, don’t judge him for his past,
Some things are best left sewn up.
They sold him eventually
Inittially NO is a Melbourne Poet
To a person who was really sweet.
And had lots of other teddy bears
For Fudge to meet;
All of which got to travel overseas
With things stuffed in their behind
To be checked by overbearing
Border-crossing officialese.
Eventually, Fudge got caught
Trying to take some smarties
To far-off countries.
And got barred
From ever using his passport again.
He ended up in a police locker.
Jammed in so tight, quite a shocker.
My cupboard had nothing on that.
By then he had lost some of his stuffing
As well as his transportation job
And the poor bear felt like
He had been robbed of the good life
He might’ve had
Just doing the marshmallows,
For the first fellow
Who thought of the possibilities
Of using the bear’s behind
For work…of a scary beary kind.
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