TSL, Prompt 5 July 5 by Cathy Sydlo Wilkes  for prose or short story or poetry - The Crocodile who swam across the canal using a pool noodle.

Was in the muddy waterhole

A big bored mamma crocodile 

Whiling away the hot hours

Of the dry season

Couldn’t be bothered

To open her muzzle to let

The odd bird clean her teeth

Drat her bad breath

Flies were buzzing around

Sending her to sleep

When a flash flood swept in

Bringing with it civilisation trash

Big old mamma crocodile

Opened one eye, 

The one that always cried 

Crocodile tears of course

What she saw left her bewildered 

To say the least

A fluorescent coloured pool noodle 

Adrenaline bloomed in her old body

Pushing her into action

Swam under water towards it

Seized it, rolled with it

Oh what fun it was

Until she banged her head 

On the pier on the other bank

Of the now ragging river

And that is how the crocodile 

Swam across the river

With a pool noodle!

Lucette C. Bailliet 

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