Poetry

The Monster

Ivy Cordle

Some people think that monstersare bad, that monsters are scaryhairy and mad, but maybejust maybe if you hear a roaroutside your bedroom doorand you invite the sound in,maybe you won’t see a scary,bad, mad, monsterest creature;you’ll see a scared, sad, lonelycreature instead.And when you say “come to my bed,”you see the monster shrinkjust a thread, and whenthe monster is snuggled upclose, you feel the monstershrink a foot. By the timeyou’ve laughed and playeda game, the monster isthe same size as the helmet youwear when you’repolluxing the polluxes out of your hair.After you read the monstera book about a band, the monstercould fit in your hand. As youreyes were trying to stay awake,the monster disappeared just likethat but all you can do ishope the monster hopefully,just hopefully, will come back.

Ivy Cordle The Monsters
Ivy Cordle, 9
Princeton, NJ

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