Down came the ruler
My sentence was declared
Down came the gavel
The leaning teacher leered
“A thousand year detention
Is what you all deserve
So A thousand year detention
Is the sentence you shall serve”
The gleaming teacher’s note
Was the seal upon my fate
‘Twas but four words I wrote
That put the seal upon my pate
“Banana Mcgee Mcgee magoo”
All because He was five minutes late
“Banana Mcgee Mcgee Magoo”
I scrawled upon the board
“Banana Mcgee Mcgee Magoo”
With glee the whole class roared
The teacher stumbling in
Upon seeing it was enraged
His moaning curses ceased the din
His gaze had us caged
“Who’s responsible” he roared
His red round face toward us
His finger at the board
“Who did this?” he reiterated
All was still and quiet
Till one small hand reached up high
That one hand reached up high
To this day I don’t know why
A mouse haired boy to it attached
His trembling eyes on me they latched
The teacher turned to me with speed
“It was you who did the deed?”
I nodded once, I nodded twice
I nodded again, to make it thrice
There was no use denying it
This I knew too well
For rumour held the principle
Could make anyone tell
“Hmph!” He scrawled a note
And stuffed it in his coat
He strided out the door
And beckoned me to follow
He wove through hallways galore
And always I would follow
Not Till the door ornately carved
Came straight up to our faces
Only then did he stop
And ceased our endless paces
Thrice he knocked upon the oak
Till a voice came from within
“Come in” it said “come in”
But still thrice he tapped again
“Come in!” the voice called again
“Or else I’ll have your skin!”
The big oak door opened slow
A tremendous gust of wind did blow
Out the frame and down the hall
Knocking down students, teachers, all
The thunderous crash echoed through
Till I was bruised black and blue
Hardly daring I looked within
To see the principle prop a pin
He propped the pin, and stuck it well
To keep the panes from bursting
the windows shuddered barring hell
He gazed upon it with such fear
That my heart did shudder
It whumped and thumped, so loud
I thought that it would gutter
The glass began to creak
The wood stretched and groaned
The pin began to jiggle
The whole building moaned
The plaster bent upon its bones
The buttresses cracked and quivered
Amazingly, stupendously
The thing that happened next
Shocked me to my very core
So that I may never forget
The principle lifted his sleeve
To his scowling, creasing jowls
He drew in one last great big breath
Then let out an enormous sneeze
The terrible sound rent the room
And echoed through the halls
It wasn’t till my ringing ears
Slowly quieted down
That I noticed the wooden pin
Sliding from the sound
The sneeze had been too much
It had broke the camel's back
The pin snapped crick crack
For a moment nothing happened
But the stillness wasn’t real
The window panes burst asunder
And with a deafening squeal
The wind flooded the room
It picked me up and whisked me off
To somewhere far away
Where principals and teachers notes
Were worries for another day
And so I slept upon that breeze
All because of that fateful sneeze
Love the adventure in this poem. What an imagination!
This works really well read out loud to the rhythm of the rhyme. Love it. You should do an audio of it.