A Long Tail

Carpet Snake

Photo by David Clode on Unsplash

There’s no misspelling as I’ll be telling,
A tale about a very long tail,
The tail belonged to a long carpet snake,
Who fed on our young chicks without fail.

We lived on a farm and small chicks came to harm,
From a rapacious long slithering snake,
So, I constructed a cage of chicken wire,
To keep the chickens safe from…