Kaleb’s Travels

One night I had a nightmare.

In this bad dream my mum called the emergency room at the hospital because I had turned into a prawn.

When we got to the emergency room everyone started screaming because there was a huge talking prawn on a stretcher. We got to the doctor’s office and she got started with the explaining. “He was diving with his father and apparently he swam up to a prawn and just turned into one himself. His father fainted and sank, because he’d just seen his son turn into... this... this thing,” said my mother.

My mother had to leave while the doctors tried to perform surgery on my to turn me back into a boy. But, when the doctor had finished...

I looked like a thumb.
A thumb that was, strangely,
that of my mum.

The very next day,
I was eating some hay.
Like a horse,
Of course!

I looked in the mirror.
The dream in my dream had come true.
I was a horse. What could I do?
All I could think was to make a hullabaloo.

When I woke up, I had the dog of my dreams.

Yes! I had woken up.

The dog was strange,
It had a mane.
I noticed it was a lion,
So I got it tamed.

The lion was named,
“The King of The Lane”,
Because all he did was sit,
In my street: Mullberry Lane.

I hadn’t a lion,
A prawn or a dog...
Or even the dream?!
It was all just some fog.

That was the end,
The end I say,
I was in the hospital when I woke up
And I was there all day.

What a strange dream!