Literary Tommy And His Literal Grandma Poem by Raj Arumugam

1
"My grandma, she takes
me too literally, "
says Little Literary Tommy
"At Daylight Saving
I tell her to put her clock forward
and she does so, and her clock falls off her table"

'‘Oh, Little Tommy, ' she says
‘See what you've made me do! '
and she lands a knock on my head"

2
"Months later
when Daylight Saving 's over
I tell her to put her clock backward
and she does so, and she grumbles:
‘Silly boy - now I can't see the time! '
and lands a knock on my head"

3
"She takes this literal thing too far
does my Literal Granny
that when I had a habit of sleeping late
and never getting up for school
she made me sleep out in her garden of herbs
so that I literally got up on Thyme
- and still I got a knock on my head
cos she'd forgotten why I was there in the first place"


4
But one good thing
(we must observe)
Literal Granny does for
poor Literary Tommy:
she knocks enough sense into his head
to prepare him for the hard knocks of the Literary Life