Living

The Re-echo Club: as by Rudyard Kipling (Pumpkin Eater)

by Carolyn Wells 1862–1942

From The Re-echo Club

Living

In a great big Mammoth pumpkin
Lookin' eastward to the sea,
There's a wife of mine a-settin'
And I know she's mad at me.
For I hear her calling, "Peter!"
With a wild hysteric shout:
"Come you back, you Punkin Eater,--
Come you back and let me out!"
For she's in a punkin shell,
I have locked her in her cell;
But it really is a comfy, well-constructed punkin shell;
And there she'll have to dwell,
For she didn't treat me well,
So I put her in the punkin and I've kept her very well.

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A parody by Carolyn Wells, written in the manner of Rudyard Kipling as a contribution to the imagined Re-Echo Club (Pumpkin Eater).

MLA

Wells, Carolyn. “The Re-echo Club: as by Rudyard Kipling (Pumpkin Eater).” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wells_c/295/.

Chicago

Wells, Carolyn. “The Re-echo Club: as by Rudyard Kipling (Pumpkin Eater).” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wells_c/295/.

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