Upside Down Totally Twisted Inside Out Blithely Backwards Everything Opposite Wickedly Wacky Weird Town

(most commonly known as Upside Down Town)

 

                                              By Tessaly Jen      

 

 “Don’t go into the forest!”

Said old Mama Clavorest.

But of course what else did young Nel and Len do?

They went into the forest to explore through and through.

Away from their picnic when Mama was turned,

Right into the forest, just how they had yearned.

The path was long and the trees were tall

And in the expanse Nel and Len felt quite small.

 

After walking and walking for hours and hours

They seemed to see nothing but the same yellow flowers.

They just wanted lunch and old Mama’s embrace

But the end was far, they weren’t winning this race.

But alas, look ahead, what’s that over there?

A sign twisted and turned, it looks oh so rare.

Upside Down Town: 2 tall trees ahead,                                            

Nel and Len looked up once they had read.

 

This town was quite upside down as the sign had said.

Everything was turned right onto its head.

Things that were forward were backward instead

Up or down? Who could tell? Oh what a dread!

 

Then along came a man in a polka dot suit.

He was all turned around, in the air kicked his boot.

Len turned to Nel who looked rather confused.

What was he doing? Just being amused?

But then who was right in this lost foolish town?

Perhaps Nel and Len were the ones upside down.

“Well goodbye there young friends!” exclaimed the polka dot man.

“But hello must come first! You must know this if you can.”

“Well no need to anger, it’s not a big deal.

Only the size of a small slip on a peel.”

“This is such nonsense, this talk is baloney,

What we need is a ride out on a pony.

We’re really quite lost, we want to go home,

Do you have any ideas up there in your dome?”

“My noggin is boggin’, it’s the weight of my suit,

Nope, no can do. Well toodle-loo. Toot toot!”

“Wait one more sec, you are making us dizzy!”

But before one more word he was off in a tizzy.

 

Zoom zoom dittle, dleep dleep!

Here someone comes, beep beep!

Only a prince could be riding inside

That stupenderiffic stellar fun ride.

It’s quite an attraction, a rare sort of distraction,

A great awesome fraction of pure sweet satisfaction.

It rolls on its head, its wheels in the air.

It’s almost got wings with doors full of flare.

It’s skimming and zipping and flying about,

It’s going to stop soon, there can’t be a doubt.

Flippity floppity bip bop

There is the owner, out from the tip top.

 

 

 

“Jack Mayor I’m, children young there hello well,

Today here day this not it is swell?

Up downside the of town my to here you brings what?”

“Is that even real English? This guy’s a true nut!

We want to go home mister. Please show us the way.”

“Away right you tell I’ll problem no is that hey.

Back houses two and forward houses three

Left a take that at, sign a be there’ll see.

Down way slopes hill the ‘til up paces ten,

Crown a see you ‘til walk carefully then.

Riddle a you ask will it,

Goose Mother famed the by writ.

Be will you off and ditty the answer just.

See will you home again and right I’m that trust.”

“Please write it down here so we don’t forget.”

And write it he did in a small paper booklet.

“Oo-toodle off I’m, children young time next ‘til.”

And the children ran too with no time to kill.

 

But where could they start?

His words were jibberish, to them just pure art.

Len started to cry, great big tears of fear,

But Nel told him to stop, that the end would be near.

“Just look at this paper, let’s try to get back

I’m sure there is a way, a code we can crack.”

So Nel took the paper and read it five times

And on the fifth time she made sense of the rhymes.

“Just switch the order, words are simply miscast,

The last words go first and the first words go last.”

In no time she’d switched it, as easy as pie,

Now it makes much more sense, just read, give a try:

Three houses forward and two houses back

See there’ll be a sign, at that take a left.

Ten paces up ‘til the hill slopes way down.

Then carefully walk ‘til you see a crown.

It will ask you a riddle

Writ by the famed Mother Goose

Just answer the ditty and off you will be

Trust that I’m right and again home you will see.

 

They followed the pathway and a crown they did see.

But the riddle was tricky as riddles can be.

There was a girl in our town,
Silk an' satin was her gown,
Silk an' satin, gold an' velvet,
Guess her name, three times I've telled it.

 

After thinking and thinking and thinking some more

Len looked up with a grin, he could open this door.

Ann was the answer, the name of the girl.

As soon as he said it they were off in a whirl.

Their surroundings were changing, goodbye to the trees.

Hello to the sun and Mama’s face full of glee.

 

This is it, it’s the end. This story is done.

Maybe next time Upside Down Town will bring you some fun.