Rum N Raisin 7 - Paws
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Rum had heard the rumour, “There’s a great new movie out.”
He asked around to find out what the plot might be about
It’s a tale of dogs so naughty, folk won’t go outdoors
Twas Ronnie Rat that told him that the movie’s name is ‘PAWS!’
Raisin said, “We wouldn’t understand a single word,
There won’t be cat subtitles so your idea is absurd
Besides, why has a film with dogs got you completely smitten
Can’t we wait until they show a movie with a kitten?”
But Rum had made his mind up, he was gonna see that movie
So he meowed and purred real loud and said, “It might be groovy.”
Raisin shrugged and with a huff she said, “Okay, we’ll go,
But you say ‘groovy’ one more time and I for one won’t show.”
At the cinema where all the people leaving shivered
They snuck in through a back door where the popcorn got delivered
Raisin saw a single seat where both of them could sit
She also knew another seat would be a better fit
The lady in the next seat had a very hairy nose
It seems in tales like this, it’s just the way the story goes
She vanished fairly quickly saying, “Oh, me poor old knees.”
When Raisin started scratching at imaginary fleas
And so the lights went down and Raisin muttered with a frown,
“We’re gonna be the laughing stock of this entire town,
If this movie ain’t as scary as it’s meant to be,
It seems you will have made a proper numpty out of me.”
The movie soon got going and a scary scene was showing
The schoolboy, sat in front of Raisin, thought he was all-knowing
He stamped his feet and banged his seat and yelled, “That dog is phoney!”
And Raisin couldn’t help herself, she simply cried, “Baloney!”
The boy declared, “I am not scared of rubber dogs… but how…
Am I so sure that I just heard some stoopid cat Meow?”
He turned and snarled at Rum and Raisin and he made a fist
But then sat back down whimpering when Rum and Raisin hissed
The movie had moved on and now it started getting scary
And Rum just sat there petrified as each scene got more hairy
He took a hold of Raisin’s paw and gripped it really firm
And then he dug his claws in when the movie made him squirm
Well, Raisin’s screech was louder than a sudden thunderclap
The audience reacted like each one had had a slap
One old man was so engrossed in on-screen misadventures
That Raisin’s screech had caused him to spit out his brand new dentures
They landed in a lady’s cola with a massive splash
And soaked her face and blue-rinse wig and also her moustache
And if we note that neither Rum nor Raisin left their seat
What a feat when ‘loudmouth schoolboy’ beat a quick retreat
Rum watched everybody leave; each heading for the doors
Raisin said, “So what do you think of this plan of yours?”
Rum said, “Well, there seems to be a lot of empty seats,
but now we have our pick of quite a few discarded eats.”
And so they saw the movie, on their own, through to the end
Raisin said, “I’m glad we came.” But Rum could not pretend
“I don’t care that popcorn isn’t too good for our health,
but I’ve drunk so much cola that… I think I’ve wet myself!”
Copyright © Terry Flood | Year Posted 2023
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