pretty dress

lucy’s in her pretty dress,
playing in the dust
‘take off your dress, lucy!
oh, you just must!’
mum runs over and claws
at her chest
‘you’ll ruin this one
like all the rest!’
lucy’s laughing and
digging a hole
‘lucy! why cant you just
do what you’re told?!’
lucy’s pretending the
hole is a grave
‘you better watch out, girl
if you don’t behave!’
mum is grabbing at the
bottom of the skirt.
lucy’s dress is
covered in dirt.
‘lucy! what did i say?’
lucy laughs
and looks away
she digs the grave wider
and pushes mummy in
she covers her up
burying her
up to her chin
‘lucy!’ mum yells,
‘stop it right now!’
i’d like to, thinks lucy,
but i don’t know how.
so she kept on going
covering up mum’s face
throwing dirt and laughter
all over the place
when the burying was done
lucy’d had her fun
so she took off her dress
and put it with the rest