The Tragic Tale of Mindy the Overeater

By: Richard Lynch

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Now Mindy was a little girl
Who always loved to eat
She’d gulp down almost anything
If it just tasted sweet

She went on eating, day and night
Without a thought to stop
Her parents worried that one day
Their girl was sure to pop

And one day fate rang at her door,
She felt a little sick
She couldn’t understand at all,
Her buttons would not click!

She was too big for all her clothes
But this was not most strange –
She became what she always ate:
To candy she did change!

Now she was scared because she knew
That sometime very soon
The Gingercove would pick the scent
And eat her up by noon

And just as little Mindy guessed,
She heard the grinding jaws
The Gingercove was coming now
Scratching with giant claws!

Little Mindy tried to escape
But she just could not run
For ev’rything she gobbled up
Had made her weigh a ton

The Gingercove loomed over her
Staring with two bright eyes
At first it didn’t move at all
Just watched its tasty prize

The Gingercove snatched Mindy up
And swept her off her feet
It swallowed her in just one gulp;
She tasted very sweet!

Back to the woods the creature went
Its meal it did enjoy
It went to sleep and waited for
Another girl or boy.

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