Poetry for Slugs

Slugs are slow and create a trail of slime

And can travel surprisingly far given time

Creating slimy trails upon your floor

On the carpet and on the door

And at night when you are asleep in bed

So you will find you wake up with a slimy head

And slimy feet and slimy hair

Which if you like slugs then you will not care

Slugs are friendly critters and tend to smile

Although some folk insist they are rather vile

But they really are happy beasts and like to sing

As they eat all your nice new plants in the Spring

However they live in fear of the scary toad

And will tell him the slugs are greener across the road

And when the toad starts to cross, to go and see

All the slugs will start to flee

In order to hide under your gardening hat

Hoping that on the road the toad

Goes Splat