Who Killed Cock Robin?


from the ABC set My Poems

Not the sparrow, for a start. Having researched the matter I find the name on his firearms licence to be Sparron, clearly somebody else entirely. The only witness was the fly, but could he, with his compound eye, have recognised sparrow at that distance? I doubt it. Then we come to the fish who claims to have caught his blood. Fish was convicted the previous year for riding a bicycle with no lights so his testimony can be ignored. The beetle might indeed have made the shroud but the shroud was the wrong size entirely for Cock Robin and appears to have been made for a creature with three legs and no head, with a head-shaped leg where its head should have been. The more I researched, the more suspicious the death looked and I began to wonder whether Mr. Robin was indeed dead at all. Where, for example, is the body? Buried, claims the owl. Just what I'd do if I had a secret. Do honest owls bury bodies? I think not. Remember Kennedy? Remember Roswell? Well then.

We need to have an immediate inquiry with me as Important Person and everybody calling me Sir. Only that way will the truth come out. I should have a uniform too. And a special hat.

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Comments

chuck | May 15, 2009 - 15:31

I could be Government Spokesman and conduct a full and thorough enquiry if you like. We could produce a report blaming the faulty system.

Mangone | May 15, 2009 - 15:32

It was that prick Batman.

Ewan | May 15, 2009 - 17:15

But all the birds of the air uttered a quite inappropriate expletive once they heard Cock Robin had made of the galvanised zinc water container a football. So, does it matter?

SundaysChild | May 15, 2009 - 17:24

Lol Mangone.

I liked this a lot.
A special hat is indeed a necessity.

threeleafshamrock | May 17, 2009 - 09:33

...and of course the inquiry will produce a report that will be buried for 30 years under the 'Protection of Information Liable to get us into trouble and not re-elected' act of 0001 AD. Personally I think he rose again and is seated at the right wing of the Golden Eagle (maybe a little left of right wing). All conspirators and suspects - including the fish - should be arrested, blindfolded, chained and kept in a huge compound without trial, until a)animal rights activists make such a fuss, that everyone questions what we are doing, b) everyone forgets about them, or c)an election of a new president is imminent. Sorry if this appears a little seditious but I'm feeling a bit bushed at the moment.

Chris ;)