Summary:  The silliest things can happen.  Halloween is a perfect time for nonsense.  The Cartwrights had some special guests for their dinner this night.

Rating: G

Word Count: 501

The mischievous big boy boonies

And the crazy little girl goonies

Wanted to do something silly and loonie

They wanted to do some serious tomfoolery.

They rose aloft to the dark, cloudless night

And flitted about in the yellow Harvest moonlight.

They found the perfect place, the perfect site –

The home of a family called Cartwright.

The day’s work was done, the horses in their stable

As the Cartwrights’ were sitting down to the dinner table.

The Halloween sprites knew they would be able

To dish out some havoc from their devious ladle.

There in the middle of the table so round and big

Was a well done, juicy roasted pig.

Suddenly, it leaped to its feet and started dancing a jig.

It donned a napkin round its middle as if wearing a dancing skirt rig.

Hoss leaped up to capture his dinner and with the pig began to grapple.

When it stood straight up and spit from its mouth a big, red apple.

The apple hit Hoss dead on his head.  He fell back, his eyes rounded and glazed.

He could do no more than sit there looking shocked and dazed.

The corn on the cob, arose and began to wobble and bob.

Their kernels they began everywhere to lob

Covering everything with a buttery slimly blob.

Oh, of making a mess, they were doing a fine job.

Then up came the baked and fried potatoes

To start cavorting with the salad and tomatoes.

Such a risqué scene, oh heaven only knows.

One wonders where this kind of passion goes?

Then the dishes up and joined in – the cups, the bowls and even the platter.

Around the table they did jump and shake and clatter,

They made quite a mess as the food they did everywhere splatter.

The sound did abound with rattling cutlery and china chatter.

Joe could not believe this strange and noisy show.

His eyes were wide and his mount a big “O.”

What in the world was happening?  He did not know.

But the madness grew and on it continued to grow.

Then the Cartwrights’ many books

Began to rustle and move in their nooks.

Each one now had a face or bore a funny look.

One was a cowboy.  Another a baker.  One was a Chinese cook!

Adam watched the madness and mirth as in his chair he calmly sat back.

He wondered at the source of this wild, weird surreal attack.

Of its entertaining value, he quietly surmised, there was no lack.

He just grinned and watched, a gargoyle himself all dressed in black.

Just then Ben stood up his voice a loud roar and rough.

He spoke in a voice so fierce and tough,

“Enough! Enough! I say this is enough!

Enough of this silliness and nonsense stuff!

The grandfather clock then struck its midnight chime

And the boonies and goonies took to flight.

They departed just in time

Because this is the end of this silly rhyme!

Tags:  Cartwright Family Mayhem