My history dates – just wrong,
Experiments in chemistry
Make such an awful pong.
But there’s something I am good at -
I have imagination,
And when I paint my pictures
I’m a master of creation.
All my pictures come to life,
A mouse – a cake – a spider,
So I have to be quite careful,
Say, not to paint a tiger...
When I was only five years old,
And feeling rather sore,
I drew a massive Purple Thing
That lived behind a door.
The Purple Thing has lots of teeth -
Yes, it’s still alive -
Its favourite food is biscuit,
Digestives make it thrive.
But if it can’t get biscuits,
The Thing will eat – whatever –
Like sonnets, graphs and history dates,
All mashed up together.
Purple-Thing ate my homework!
Don’t say that isn’t true...
Be careful. Don’t go near it!
See, now it’s scoffing – YOU!