My mum has these sayings
which I really like, but
I just don’t understand.
When I’m having trouble
with a maths equation for homework
and she finds another way
of getting the correct answer,
she always laughs and says,
‘There’s more than one way to skin a cat.’
With a razor blade?
Or her lady shaver?
Or the sheep shears?
And why would you want to do that anyway?
Cats aren’t sheep with woolly warm coats.
Seeing Rusty, the town tomcat, naked
would be quite a sight!
Late last night Mum said,
‘Don’t burn your candle at both ends’,
when I was falling asleep while watching a video.
I spent all morning
trying to light a beeswax candle at both ends.
I dripped wax all over my fingers,
singed the hair on my wrist
and wasted lots of matches.
You can’t burn a candle from both ends.
That’s what Mum should say!