HOOT

• If you tell a joke in our house, stuff
• your fingers in your ears:
• the way that we all laugh’s enough
• to salt your eyes with tears.


• Mum gurgles like her washing-machine
• Dad booms like a ferry in fog
• my sister chuckles like her playschool tambourine
• my brother croaks like a hiccuping frog
• Aunty Jill trills like her mobile phone
• Uncle Ray growls like an upset tum
• Gran cackles like a startled hen
• Grandad snorts like a farting bum
• the baby sputters like a squall of rain
• cousin Bob brays like a runaway train.


• If you make us laugh at our house, you
• will wish you never had:
• our deafening caterwauling zoo
• will drive  you  mad.

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