Design Brief
Christmas morning. Present chaos.
Kids and adults up too soon.
The sun has not begun to show yet.
Only half a sallow moon
Sits above a grey horizon
Looking down upon the scene.
Paper, cardboard string and ribbon
Presents somewhere in-between.
Here's a car, a game, some chocolate.
Here's a bottle - gulp it down.
Swig it back. Don't read the label.
Why the sudden cough and frown?
Why the scream of shock and horror?
Josh has drunk his bubble bath.
Now he's retching in the bathroom
None of us would dare to laugh.
Coughs and splutters, screams of anguish
What a start to Christmas Day.
He laughed about it later on.
I think that boy will be OK.
At least he has a sense of humour
Sometimes rash and sometimes wild.
Why design a bubble bath
To fool an unsuspecting child?
It looked just like a drinking bottle.
Adults too could be confused
But at the time it's true to say
Young Joshua was not amused.
I'd like to meet the thing's designer.
Tell them what we'd all seen pass.
Then bend him over and with vigour
Shove the thing right up his design brief.
