Stories of Young Cheddar, The Cedar; Whoopsy Daipsy
Stories of Young Cheddar, The Cedar
Title: Whoopsy Daipsy
Morning broke in the night and
For these four trees it meant
Perhaps
The moon had shone on their bark just right
Or if cloudy
It was that they had knocked their young canopies
Against their Tree neighbours of the Day just gone
The necessary number of times before dawn
So they may be sure to
Wake for their work on time
Should that dratting Moon not show
Perhaps
So the four saplings stirred with crunches and pops
To the dark dark dark
Cold cold cold
Vast vast vast
Home they called The Forest
And the wind’s recorder was
As tuneless and unpleasant as ever
Still calming and familiar
Bleak but
They were
Never The Less
Never. The. Less.
Is what they might be heard chanting
Picking up their spirits
As they trudged the tracks
Nevertheless
Perhaps
Indeed
They were a family of orphans
These four Steward Trees and
They were different from
The Other Trees of The Forest
Their neighbours of the Day just gone
“Par-boiled potatoes”
Shouts Cherry Sour
Naughty They
They
Habitually random in outburst
Like their sister Cherry Wild
Indeed
These were two of the four
All of whom root for the rays
Standing still with the unconscious ones
The Other Trees of The Forest
Ours though
The Steward Trees of The Forest
This of course their sleep
The daytime
On this their ever so
Seemingly
Never ending
Work-Filled
Wanderings
You know
Indeed
You know
Some say
Of our four saplings
They
Steward Trees
Some say
Steward Trees are blessed
But others say cursed
Regardless – you know - these four had their work
Indeed
Perhaps
Never the less
So now then
Under the lights of the sky
The Morning of the Night had broken up to them
And opened up to them anew
Morning
Morning Indeed
First Thing was the first thing to be done
Which was why it was called First Thing
So The Night Opened to Them
First Thing – to eat
For them – as always – the same
For months now
Jaffa Cakes
And they chatted as they were forever doing
“It’s a biscuit”
Insisted Cherry Sour to Their Sibling Cherry Wild
“Erm zzztttt it’s notttt – pyjamas –
I’VE FOLDED MINE!±!±!”
Replied Cherry Wild to Cherry Sour
Who in confusion asked
“Erm…zzzttttt – what’s pyjamas?”
Here Cherry Sour mimicking Cherry Wild’s zzzzzttt tick
Naughty Naughty Cherry Sour
And Chestnut Sweet fielded the question
The twins’ sister
“Pyjamas
It’s what the humans wear to bed”
And they’d now lost the thread
Forgetting entirely what they were arguing about until
Cheddar Chimed in
“You know I think they must be biscuits
I mean – they are obviously a cake because –
Spongey – err you twit
But I think anything we eat is a biscuit
We say it for something that is
Discrete yet identical
Right?
Reproducible identical
But things that we need like
Paracetamol
Is a biscuit
To me at least
Easy Easy
The Other Trees
Oh Awkward
Shhhhhhhhhh
Reproducible-Identical yes jester but
……we don’t eat the Other Trees now do we?
Do we?
And Chestnut Sweet fields
“You know you really do talk too much don’t you”
Caught
And with that a branch fell from above
The Forest a-la-la
Hitting and knocking Cheddar down
Floored and Seasoned
The Forest wields Karma
Indeed
Show-off
Now
Jaffa Cakes eaten
Indeed
It was then that Mr Badger Merlin Delivered
And the stars were there to appreciate the moment
Though the light not needed by the Steward Trees since
These our four saplings of The Steward Trees
They –
As with all The Steward Trees
They saw the Delivery
Or see completely
All without an eye between them
You see
Indeed
All while going about their duties
Impressive indeed
What is going on here?
No eyes
Perhaps
Indeed
So Mr Badger Merlin had come up
From out of his badger set
To Deliver
But also to cajole cajole this
HIS
Troupe of youths
And he followed them everywhere so he did
Unseen until – until
Until it was time to Deliver
So He
He did
This so
All he’d known
Indeed
Since Mr Badger Merlin had been assigned to them He long ago resigned to the FUTILITY of it all
No flotilla for help
No fruit for soothe
Just coke to drink
He knew there was no stopping IT
So
He gnawed the roots and ushered the Ants and
He took the Duties
He understood the Duties and
He passed them on as he was shown to do
And he followed them everywhere so he did
Unseen until – until
Until it was time to Deliver their Duties
As ever
Every Dusk
Shortly after
First Thing
So I suppose Mr Badger Merlin was
Second Thing – though no one said it of course
He, Mr Badger Merlin
A geriatric jack-in-a-box on Manna
Like the Israelites of Antiquity
Now some Coke import
Cans upon cans of the stuff rattled around him
Upon emergence from his earthy badgery set
Indeed
So cajole cajole he did
As he delivered that night’s
The Parchment of Duties of Eve’ Song that
Cherry Sour so detested
Not the Duties but the means of receiving them
“Voila there you go have a good one – off you pop – allez allez – giddy up”
Said He slurping coke
Grey and black and disgruntled and knowing – Mr Badger Merlin
Gave swipe to Cherry Sour – a custom of the parade like
Coconut Custard Creams with afternoon Tea at Grannies
TOTALLY FLIPPING BONKERS
Indeed
He would cut Them
Our Cherry Sour
He would not fail to lacerate
The poor thing
Cherry Sour as he Delivered the Duties
The Parchment of Duties of Eve’ Song that
Cherry Sour so detested
This dark daily occurrence
A part of Work
Life
But evermore
For Cherry Sour this treatment
Had been ruminating a
Hating of
Mr Badger Merlin
See cuts each time for as long as
Can be remembered
Beyond then even
But
Time to them was abstract
Like how a life-long prisoner can play with it
Indeed
Nevertheless
No wonder the pour little thing detested all this
Cheddar ever the magician of justice
Chimed his glockenspiel
To sound another attempt at tackling
The Thing
A squabble ensued between the four
Led by the elder
The details of which are impossible to gather
Since when these four bicker
Extremely
Words cease
Our Young Cedar, Cheddar
Intelligibly rounds off the axe swinging with:
“Right that’s settled – Cherry Sour I hear you honey but
‘Parently you peewees wont let me – sooooo –
maybe just take it and suck it up cus
there isn’t any changing that Mr Badger Merlin
An am kinda getting fed up of hearing about it
You have your Rum & Raisin don’t you?!”
Cherry Sour nodded
And so
It was agreed Cherry Sour would continue to take
The Parchment of Duties of Eve’ Song
Their Instructions for Work
For that is how it had always been and
Cherry Sour was the only one eating
Or rather
Needing
The eating of the Rum & Raisin Dark Chocolate
They so desperately shouldered
You see
Indeed
So – for that reason alone
And for being a stubborn sticky-bun
They quick-sanded the situ to status quo
You see
And so
But hang on there you birdy-bee
Why did
Exactly
Why did
Why do
They not let Cheddar get the letter?
This, I do wonder
Perhaps
Indeed
Perhaps
Indeed
“Onwards”
Says Chestnut Sweet
“The air is fresh and I am ready to do this
Are you? Another day
Meetings and First Thing
and Second Things all done now yeah?”
Stretching rhetorically and swaying to the sound of the wind
The recorder
The wind
A tuneless and
An unpleasant sound
It has been mentioned
But nevertheless
Indeed
They left for their work
Duties in hand
A purposeful wander through
The Forest
With no progress on the niggles really though
Perhaps
Indeed
So they moved on
Creeping along the rows
Of stiff trees not blessed
Or was it cursed like them
For they
These four & others
There were others of course
Also unseen as these four are
And their Duties?
All for the humans of The Forest
Who lived in the spaces where a few too many trees had fallen
In houses of brick and thatch
Familiar
But
Indeed
May we please
Now allow
A moment for
Chestnut Sweet
As Our Four Saplings walk
She – Chestnut Sweet is just that
Certainly good or of the light but certainly
A little lemon meringue pie curt incisive sometimes
And what else?
Well
She enjoys a smattering of yoga after
First Thing and after
Second Thing
So to speak
Indeed
Oh she’s wise but not quite like Cheddar
Perhaps
They – Chestnut Sweet
The next in line behind him
The Eldest
The Elder
Our Young Cedar
Indeed
The Second being Chestnut Sweet
And to keep them so – Young Cedar
Gives the reigns to Chestnut Sweet like
You lead
I am leader
Perhaps
Anyway
So for these our young working saplings
Our orphans
By the power of some
Force of The Forest
How distinct
Indeed distinct indeed
And indeed here is another
Distinct matter
At some point since waking up
To their Work
For the first time
They must have decided between them
“We are nevertheless indeed” or a case of
Telling themselves so
Given how much they did so say it
For they were special and had this WORK
To do
Always
Indeed
However – if we may
Let’s turn back briefly to the oddity of our
Young Cedar
Well
Indeed
Perhaps
Cheddar was the one they looked to
Always he remained though
Totally and utterly
Oblivious to it
“Cutlery”
Shouts Cherry Sour
Perhaps
Indeed
So it seems at least
But there’s so much more beyond
The itchy bark faces that make up
Him
Perhaps
Indeed
It wasn’t obvious to Cheddar why or
Why he was the only one to have
A nickname since
Mr Badger Merlin, Young Cedar, Chestnut Sweet
Cherry Wild and Cherry Sour
Were their names as given and
Known as such from when they
Woke up to their Work for the first time
Names
Given by The Mother of The Forest
Perhaps
All recorded
All recorded as the
Wind’s flute sounds tuneless and unpleasant
As you’ve heard
Indeed
But
One moment please
Before my introductions cease
This is important
It should be said too that
In a manner semi-unknowing
These four
Or rather three of the four were shook
Each Morning of the night
Not just by their evening rituals
Or the silver flow of the moon
As mentioned
But
Indeed
It was this body
This
Their
Local Colony of the Mother’s Hips
So they say
So they call it
Perhaps
They – this body
It
A
mezmeration of littlies
Named to them by
Mr Badger Merlin
Indeed
For our young Steward Trees
Are blind to the spectacle
Or so it seems
This
A monstrous illumination
The Forest finds tentacles
Trains of humming sun run all over
Ants
Part of The Legion of the Ants of The Forest
And the job really did seemed very vital
Based on the display of light alone
Indeed
Aside from the
Dawn-time rituals of our four saplings
Or the
Silver flow of the moon
Aside from these wee things
As mentioned
There was also
As I say
This tremendous display of photons
vanishing before Cheddar could ever
rumble alive
Indeed
First Thing
Indeed
And
As mentioned
It would seem to me that these Ants are
Filling up the cup of just
Three of our four saplings
Not Cheddar
Is it that he’s the eldest?
The Elder?
Nearly
Nearly there
Indeed
The truth was
There were few who really knew
What IT meant
Mr Badger Merlin being one but when asked
He would always say the same –
“I do not have the words – it’s not mine to tell”
It was certain that nobody knew what could be done
“It has just always been so
zzztttttt”
Chewed Cherry Wild – in a moment of
Context
Context being that of silence
And the absurd
And the gnawing on her right branch
Oh she did have a tendency to squeak a bit
With excitement
And like her twin
Cherry Wild would say some of the most
Distinctly ripe and random things like
“Pelicans”
One word she would say a lot and
“Pelicans”
There see she just said it
No insanity here
I’m sure of it but
Funny how that can happen sometimes
“Pelicans is a funny word
Also Cherry Wild
You seem to be making that
Zzzzzttttt sound more and more
What does it mean?
Asks Cheddar
“It’s just a habit ok – leave me alone”
Came back Cherry Wild to defend
ALAS
We digress – so yes
These Ants would pour in grains of orange pollen
Carried by
Chain on chain on chain of each
And each
Talking
Communicating
Shuffling – in perfect harmony
Not A Bicker
Not a Biscuit
And they would carry all this bright glowing pollen
Until the Steward Trees were brimming
And the sight was really quite
Remarkable
It has been mentioned
And so a remark would be made
IF
The Forest had paper for itself or
IF
The Forest could remark it would but
So be it that – there is not a Thing
To have eyes to appreciate it
Such are the depths of The Forest
Except
Perchance
An Animal of The Forest
So Blessed
Or so cursed to aide the Steward Trees in their Duties
And one such beast would too need to be awake
Before their time
Perhaps
Perhaps Indeed
Should they wish to see it
Perhaps they might not
Such is this dark dark dark
Cold cold cold
Vast vast vast
Home they call The Forest
Indeed
You can now forget any understanding of this
Phenomenal Phenomenon
All that matters is that this
Bright snaking glow of ants in service is
IT
A performance
IT
A performance of The Forest
For some
For all of the bewildering wilderness of
The Forest
Indeed
And one certainty is that
IT
IT
Keeps Mr Badger Merlin
Forever grumpy
All swipey and hurty
And at this moment
Cheddar seemed still stuck on the subject of
Mr Badger Merlin
“He’s grumpy but –
He has his pop
That cocoa stuff so
Lucky him
All I get is Jaffa Cakes
Be nice wouldn’t it – have that or
Cheddar’s glockenspiel chimes as an alarm this time
Over come
“Oh drat - it’s the 6th of the Month
Cherries and Chestnut
Oh peewees and ice-cream
We’ve our appointment with Javid The Dentist
And I so nearly forgot
Thank you whoever whispered that reminder”
Indeed
And Chestnut Sweet’s xylophone went off
“Oh good one Cheddar
We haven’t even got close to the start of our list yet
Where does it take us?
Oh excellent
Detours galore”
And Cherry Sour’s voice is heard
“I am not going without my R&R dark choco
I’ll curse you
I’ll curse you please I don’t want to have to curse you
Let’s go”
And so they marched on in a whizz of the whimsical
Cheddar gone
Ahead
Indeed
His mistake
Pace to set
And now they’re at Javid The Dentist’s
A floating boating thing of
Mainly felled Trees
He is always sure to share with visitors
Particularly Steward Trees
That his home is not made from Steward Trees
Or otherwise that would be High Treason of The Forest
By the power of the laws laid down by The Forest itself
For the Forest knows that Man cannot be trusted
For Man is CIVIL and The Forest
Sees CIVIL
As a cloak for EVIL
And as it happens
Chestnut Sweet
Interrupted their pleasantries with a comment
As welcome as pastries to Javid The Dentist
“Ever noticed how civil and evil both have
the Roman Numeral for 6 in them?
Like the Devil – oh the Devil too you see!”
And Cherry Sour added
“Duh! Humans eat what they have already eaten
And they never stick to the rules they make
I’ve seen them molest their young
Animals are far better behaved
Are they not?”
Javid hated pastries
“Did somebody mention pastries?”
Hating even the thought of the word
That nobody had said
The floating boating thing and all within looked
Lost and a little scared since
Javid The Dentist was known to have
An almighty temper
And he clearly wanted to end that line of chat
Thankfully the dark flash in his eyes passed
Perhaps
Indeed
“So Cherry Sour – shall we move through my darling?”
Said the Croc wearing Crocodile
He claims to have invented them you know
Even showed off his royalties cheques last month
“And there we are”
Said the rubbery beast upon their return
With Cherry Sour meekly managing
Their between branches
Mound of Rum and Raisin Dark Chocolate
To last the month
“And you’re sure you still don’t want anything
from us Javid?”
Chestnut Sweet asked
The slippery mossy monster just gave a cheeky grin
Pupils wide-black like a matt paint wall
“No no – I’ve got everything I need”
Perhaps
Indeed
And
It was customary then for our young Steward Trees
To humour Javid The Dentist
While he felt the need to impress upon them
Whatever it was he had seen on Television
Javid The Dentist LOVED the television
“I’ve just be watching Chicken Shop Date
Have you seen it?”
Blank
“Oh its awfully intriguing
This Fox, Amelia Demouldenburg
An actual Fox
Oh you know how they have shops
That serves chicken to chickens now
Wicked
Anyway
This Fox goes in there
While they are eating and interviews them
I think it’s like a pretend date
With the famous chickens
And she just sits there taking the piss out of them
And the really intriguing thing is
Aside from her managing not to gobble them all up
The really intriguing thing is that these Chickens
They seems to find it funny too
I don’t understand it”
Chestnut Sweet as allocated responder says
“I think everybody is just trying to get on
Mr Javid”
And so they left
Job done and on to their Work
And as our crew of young Steward Trees walked
The paths of that vast needled place
Crunching along
The Funnels
By branch and trunk
Carved by feet and roots overtime
And above
Arched all homely
Trees
Cousins interwoven
The Forest their home
With the wind’s recorder
Unpleasant and tuneless
Ever whistling
Now
Considering the delay of the day
They’re moving slow for them
Yet still some pace it was or is all crispy-silent
Yet for any nearby watching eyes to see
They would have to be afforded the absence of
The Forest’s trickery
Magic atop Magic or
Magic to disarm
Now
Cheddar was talking and Chestnut Sweet had the list
Oh how they would squabble
“It’s called a conical crown I’m sure - You see”
Said Cheddar
“No it's concave – you gazebo grebo”
Cherry Sour interjecting
With their habit of saying the nonsensical
And Young Cedar responded Chameleonically
With a
“OhaPooanOhaWeeeee”
To make the little Cherry Sour feel better about their
Verbal misfortune
But also for these four found
Human words to be awfully funny things
All while Cherry Wild hop-skipped to keep up as per but
Oh so sweet is this one our
Cherry Wild
Who blossoms a shocking pink in spring
But this was not why she was Cheddar’s favourite
Though he’s not the sort to say such a thing
It was simply all the cute phrases she’d come out with
And I suppose it was how she did oh so adore her older brother
She
Cherry Wild
Certainly feminine
While Cherry Sour le Sœur
Was a decidedly Nonbinary Steward Tree
Who says
“no gender for me thank you”
They though
Where Cherry Wild is sweet
Cherry Sour is a little polluter
Relatively
Kept topped up of The NEG
And smaller than Cherry Wild
More common is the Cherry Sour Tree too
But Our little one here though
Rare and unique
If a little bitter
The best worker of the four by far
It should be said
Cherry Sour was rapid
Also a rabid jester
Ever adoring and devouring
And simply cannot go without
The smooth sweet taste of rum and raisin dark chocolate
This the VICE of Cherry Sour
Where Mr Badger Merlin has his Coke
Before long
Having crept through the rows
Of still trees not blessed
Or was it cursed as them
They reached their first village of the night
For they
These Unseen Steward Trees
Had a duty to the Humans of
The Forest
Who lived in the spaces where
A few too many trees had fallen
In houses of brick and thatch
There were many small jobs for them to do like
The collecting of odd socks
And the testing of portable appliances
Yes – the Steward Trees were undercover PAT
But these are peripheral to the main
They were Karma Police
And their list
Like Father Christmas’s I suppose
And so they would go about making life difficult
For all those humans deserving of it
So it’s our Steward Trees that are the entities that
Might cause important things to get lost
Or they might set traps like
Blocking drains or turning the toaster to full heat
So
Burnt toast
Fire alarm
You understand
And Cheddar could not help but grumble
At all the misfortune they spread
While Cherry Sour revelled in it
Now
Our deities have paused for a break from
Their Duties
As you know
Season depending
Their break sits somewhere between 2 and 3 in this the AM
As you may already be aware
Steward Trees receive their tic-tac
A drop by the sparrows
A nibble of something more to eat
And any updates or late additions to
The Parchment of Duties of Eve’ Song
And on these breaks
As you may have heard
They tended to play
Tic Tac Toe
Ever the creatures of habit
Naughts and Crosses
And as always
It was at this time that
Cherry Sour would of course be allowed to
Eat their rum and raisin chocolate
All dark
Young Cedar chimed in
“You know in a forest miles away –
The other side of you know – the End of this one”
Cherry Sour interjected
“There is no end to The Forest Ched – it’s every lasting...”
They always did object this way when there was mention of
“The End”
Chestnut Sweet added without alarm
“It’s also known as Zero Sum Game, you know”
Young Cedar continued the thread
“I’ve forgotten where I was going with that
But I’ve just realised how we say “you know” a lot
Don’t you think?
It’s funny how these habits get into us isn’t it?”
And the other three trees of this little family
Rooted as always for their tic tac and tic tac toe
They
Enjoyed a moment of clearing
Appreciation
“He really was a kettle wasn’t he
Had he figured it out?
They thought collectively
And Cherry Wild and Cherry Sour
The twins
Seemed to say both at once
Which was rare for them because they were so different
But they said in unison
“Story time story time story time”
This had not been seen before
Them speaking in tandem
Though it should be known
This request was often made of Young Cedar
But this time
In this moment
Young Cedar seemed to become the forest itself
Perhaps owing to that jinx
He said:
Firstly – Let It Be Known – That I See
The End of The Forest
Secondly Let It Be Known –
There Are Other Forests
(One is spelt with two Rs for example)
Thirdly – Here – Have My Story – Since You Asked So – Timely:
Dear Trees of The Forest
I know your business has seemed scary
for the few true and committed to the
Standards of the Stewards
but know the Log-in of the Heavens is thus:
The Barista
Takes the nature’s coffee
of another Planet
seemingly
The Barista
Takes the nature’s water
Of another planet seemingly
The Barista
Takes the Methods known of that other
Planet
To make the coffee but
The Barista
Is made to work too hard
& is also to juggle these three alien objects &
The coffee goes cold
So, The Barista must
Warm up the coffee and
The Customer suggests
Their microwave
The Barista
Obliges but is cleverer
He knows the craic
He says
“Sorry certainly - certealy Sir
Whatever teatment you think
We are one tea.m
Good job coffee requires no warrantea hey”
This Barista
was cleverer as I say and he
poured much coffee in to the pot
to be reheated in the microwave
The Barista
He left it and asked “how long?” 2mins?
Continuing his juggling
He knew the machine better than him
The Pot
Boils over in there
And he’s quick to open it up to a mess saying
“Oh dear your coffee is ruined”
The Barista
Disappointed perhaps embarrassed says
“It’ll take some time to re-start now
can I interest you in anything else – quicker perhaps?”
To The Barista
Standing by a pot of tea
The Customer said
“Oh fine I’ll have tea from that there pot”
And to the Customer
The Barista gave tea for them to leave
And I hear the trees ask – what was the point of all this?
Well, to the audience of this – Whoops a Daisy – I say:
The Marvel here is The Barista’s Cunning
Too little coffee in the pot and
It just boils down
Not over
And The Barista gives the Customer what The Barista knows the Customer should not be having –
The moment gone – Coffee already ruined
You see it was not meant to be but here’s the key:
Sometimes too much of something can be
a good thing – if it brings a reckoning like – “you know what sod it I’ll have a tea please”
Better for the experience
And anyway
We all know coffee is good for productivity
Indeed
Perhaps
Indeed
The camp
In shock
Saying nothing
They packed up and got on their way
Guilt rang through the others
Except Cheddar
Who was still buzzing at the energy he had channelled
And they were off again
And in a moment
Excitement overcame them all
Upon the words of Chestnut Sweet
Looking at
The Parchment of Duties of Eve’ Song
“Guys – we’ve been given The Factory”
And upon hearing IT
Cherry Sour
Whizzed off with the others on catch up
For there was just one factory in The Forest
Everything else the Humans made themselves
In their little villages
Subsistence living
Cocoa products being the exception
Like the Rum and Raisin Dark Chocolate that
Cherry Sour could not go without
Or the Coke cans that
Followed Mr Badger Merlin around
And before long they were there
And before long their Duties were complete
And irrelevant but
Safe to say Cheddar and Chestnut Sweet had
Seen enough
It was children making the products
And they did not look happy
Not only that but the nearby river was
Toxic with waste
Not just crappy
And there they saw it
The origins of The Legion of the Ants of The Forest
And there they knew it
These Ants were up to no good
Chestnut realised
“There’s something else Ched
Every Dusk
I am afraid to say
We three wake a little before you

These
Those ants wake us
They have us trapped
You see
You see
A wooden stern Cheddar shook himself
Leaves everywhere
“Cherry Sour
I cannot ever take you back to see Javid The Dentist
That place is evil
That stuff is vile
Where do they even get it from?
I’ve never seen cocoa in The Forest
Have you?
Or Crocodiles for that matter
And I don’t need it
And neither do the other two
And have you ever seen a wild crocodile?”
Cherry Sour
In a moment of anger
Blossomed upon command
And then shed themselves entirely
Showering the others in petals
Angry
“That is not fair
This is not happening
It’s not fair
Cherry Wild gets to do that zzzztttttt thing
The whole time and I don’t get to keep mine?
And Chestnut Sweet is a control freak
Are you going to stop them from
Micromanaging everything?
We all have our “thing” Cheddar
And as soon as it was said
Cherry Sour realised they had erred
“I don’t need anything
I just get on with it
Jaffa Cakes and Tic Tacs and
Never the less”
Insisted Cheddar
That’s me
And Cherry Sour exploded again
Letting something slip
“The Ants come for all of us because….
THEY EAT MY RUM AND RAISIN TOO!!
We’ve been keeping it from you...
Though not as much
Granted”
Chestnut Sweet rallied to appease
“We have a problem Cheddar
You know now so”
Cherry Wild
Who had been spinning on the spot for sometime now
With all the stress
All she could muster was a
“What we do den?”
And they all stood scratching their bark
Each others even
Right until the chick of a plan hatched in
Cheddars head
And as dawn broke and they settled to root
For the coming day
Ched’s plan became a hen
Or rather
A cockerel ready to crow
Set to go before the mass of ants emerge afester
They knocked their young canopies
Against all the unconscious Tree neighbours
Around
And hoped
And prayed
Dusk
Struck
After
The guys flew straight for The Factory
Against every flowering forestry feeling within them
Though
They did note the lack of falling branches
The Mother of The Forest was with them
Then
Arrival
Total destruction
Mainly from Cherry Sour
Who may have eaten
All the Rum and Raisin of The Factory
That’s ALL
And in fact found the source of the Cocoa
They vomited everywhere upon
Discovering IT
Total Destruction
Oh my boy is some powerful tree and
Took out all the days and days of swiping from Mr Badger Merlin
And all the Lock and Key Don’t See visits to
Javid The Dentist
A crocodile
You know
An alien
And then
And then
They woke to another day of Duties
By The Parchment of Duties of Eve’ Song
Delivered now by
A delightful Crow called Karl
Who was averse to hugs but no harm at all
And the wind’s recorder
It became
A tuneful pleasant
That calmed as addictions were kicked
The Mothership of Cocao Productions
Assuredly chased from
The Forest
The End of which was found
And so too
The Duties of The Steward Trees became ever more wholesome.