Very few have climbed great moun tains,
very few have reached the moon,
discoveries in space, on land and sea.
But fewer still have plucked the courage to
face the dangerous un known.
Beneath the desk of
Luke in year three
Came the day when
Luke declared,
I cannot find my book, you see
I've searched my desk of that,
you can be certain
So says the teacher, I will check, and
Luke says to himself
Oh heck,
this time you know he'll really chuck a
Burton
The teacher found six pairs of scissors and
half a pack of fizzers
89 rubber bands, a little pot of glue,
I pick up our storybook about a sickard.
Mr
Chook half a
Devon
Sanger from 1992.
He found a bottle full of aftershave,
a present that his mother gave, a soccer ball,
a footy ball, a fiberglass canoe,
a video, a stereo, a bottle full of
Juicy -O, half a pound
of sausages to make an
Irish stew.
And all of this is true.
Now all this came as some surprise.
The class could not believe their eyes.
The teacher stood with eyes and
mouth wide open
Then at last the teacher cried,
I'll have another look inside
And soon again in
Luke's desk he was groping
An d he found a pack of mouldy bubblegum,
half a tin of doggy chum
Seven dozen rulers and
some ham and chicken spread
A book of bouts from
Astro, stuff you put on plant awards
An angry brontosaurus
and a soggy waterbed
A mandolin, a violin,
a little tin to put them in
Seven tubs of margarine,
el even loaves of bread
A kangaroo, a cockatoo,
a jackaroo from channel two
A bandage from the con, he cut
his finger and it bled
What a mess
The teacher said, hmm,
hmm.
Now when the book could not be found,
the teacher looked upon the mound of all the junk that he had just uncovered.
He said to
Luke, go take a look upon my desk,
that little book may be there and be finally discovered.
So
Luke walked over to the teacher's desk,
and he found...
20 pencil packets and some winter woolly jack
ets, 87 plastic bags of photographic chook,
a box of apples big and green, a drawing of a thing he'd seen the
other teachers got between he'd accidentally took,
a tennis racket, hockey stick, a rake, a shovel,
and a pick, a pawn, a knight, a king, a queen, a bishop, and a rook,
dirty clothes, a picture frame, some undies with his mother's name,
and underneath it all,
Luke got his hands upon his...
Next time,
that's where he'll look it's crook.