Nursery Rhyme for Sleepy Heads

There once was a cat
and a dog,
in the middle of a bog,
The cat hissed and swiped,
The dog growled and yiped,
Then a frog jumped onto a lilypad
and said,
"You've had enough time to bicker and whine,
Not cool!
Do you even know the time?!
Find a place to rest your head,
and please,
SHUSH!
and go to bed.

TheSilentPoet

16 years old

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It shouts at me,

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