I was at my bedroom table
with a notebook open wide,
when a giant anaconda
started winding up my side,
I was filled with apprehension
and retreated down the stairs,
to greeted at the bottom
by a dozen grizzly bears.

We tumultuously tussled till I managed to get free,
then I saw, with trepidation,
there were tigers after me,
I could feel them growing closer,
I was quivering with fear,
then I blundered into quicksand
and began to disappear.

I was rescued by an eagle
that descended from the skies
to embrace me with its talons,
I to my terror and surprise,
but that raptor lost its purchase
when a blizzard made me sneeze,
and it dropped me in a thicket
where I battered both my knees.

l was suddenly surrounded by a troop of savage trolls, 
who maliciously informed me
they would toast me over coals,
l was lucky to elude them
when they briefly looked away−
that’s the reason why my homework
isn’t here with me today.