Special mention (under 11 years category)
I am a superhero
But my family think I'm a super-zero,
But they'll be shown
Cos I am Jackie Jones
An' I'm a superhero!
I've got no powers,
So I don't need showers,
But me mum says I stink!
How dare she I think!
I am Jackie Jones
They think I haven't got a sidekick!
Course I've got a sidekick!
My sidekick's Big Rick,
The smallest of the lot!
Big Rick came round, today.
I've got a joke, so I say:
I spy with my laser-eye
Something beginning with I.
I dunno!
OK, it's not funny,
Although it is to my bunny!
Well, she's more like a rabbit –
A rabbit called Babbitt.
We go onto my MP3
And I'm drinking tea.
Big Rick says the accident is easy to see,
I think not.
It's not my fault I needed a rubber!
My arm knocked over the tea, onto the MP3,
So I rushed to the sink, so scared that I blubber,
And just as I needed a wee!
Big Rick sensed what I was doing,
Knew what was going through my head.
His magical powers are exceedingly strong,
So they might be stronger than mine, I dread.
Anyway, back to my MP3,
The incident with my tea.
As you might already know,
Water and electricity do not go –
Oops.
Seconds later, my house was ablaze,
"Fire, fire!" we screamed – stupid phrase!
No one came, so we started to bawl,
The phone was miles down the hall!
"Big Rick," I say, as the fire flames get higher,
"There's something I know. Y'see, Big Rick…,"
And I started to talk, real quick.
The flames were getting bigger and bigger
"There is something I figure:
Now is the time to use our powers,
We haven't used them for hours and hours!"
Ricky nodded and held on to me,
We were gonna teleport out, y'see.
We close our eyes and I clicked my fingers
And we waited for the whooshing sound.
We waited for what seemed like hours -
WHOOSH -
And then we finally opened our eyes,
I had a big surprise,
But Rick didn't.
The house was a circus of flames,
The only exit was the soon-to-be-alight stairs,
Up we fled, into the attic,
And out of the window we flew.
I was flying! I was actually flying!
Of course I was, I am a superhero!
Wait, I was flying downwards.
Oh, for goodness sake!
So here I am,
In my coma.
No one comes near,
'Cos of my little aroma.
Maybe I'm not a superhero, after all.
Maybe I'm immortal, though.
I'll have to try it out!
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