Badtown

 

Once upon a time

there was a bad town

called Badtown.

Everybody              who lived in Badtown                            was bad-tempered,

 

had bad breath

 

         and bad luck.

Badtown

suffered non-stop bad weather,

the apple trees of Badtown bore nothing

but bad apples,

and the Badtown newspaper

printed nothing but bad news.

The Badtown national anthem
        was full of bad words,

 

        Badtown’s national animal was
                a badger,

 

           

 

        and the national sport
                was badminton.

 

                In fact, it was

                a game of badminton

        that eventually brought the town

                to a bad end.

 

The problem was that
even though the people of Badtown
   loved their badminton,
      they all played it really badly

and they were all extremely bad sports.

 

                          Somebody
        would always cheat and break
   the rules, and every game of badminton
         that was ever played in Badtown
                  ended in a bad fight.

   One year
      at the annual
Badtown badminton championships,
      the fighting
between the bad people of Badtown
    went on for so long
      and was so bad
that they all killed one another

and everyone died.

Even the badgers.

THE END