Right to the top of the heap
So watch out as he creeps
Through your letterbox as you sleep.
The snail speaks with many tongues
The leaping snail forever young
He ain’t cheap at full retail
Beware as the snail prevails.
The energetic leaping snail
Ahead of the wind at full sail
And if you start to chase your own tail
You just might find the snail in your mail.
The snail plays with a full deck of cards
Finds beauty in what others would discard
He a snail that ain’t no thing of slime
Likes to express through messages sublime.
Open the snail and find him blank
So is he a mollusc or just a crank
He bounces right through the Xmas season
Leaps through the year without rhyme or reason.
The snail sidles through your letterbox
Find him pinned to your Xmas socks
He be a snail and a sly old fox
The leaping snail leaps and trots.
We wonder why the snail does leap
We wonder at the rhythm he beats
Does he dream snail dreams when he sleeps
Eyes on stalks that never weep.
So keep an eye out for The Leaping Snail
You never know what may lurk in your mail.
Mudcrow
28 June 1999
