Accident Allison

Accident Allison

written by: Eric Robert Nolan

Accident Allison, what the heck?!
Again you nearly broke your neck?!
Looking for your wayward cat,
did you trip and then fall flat?

Accident Allison, what the hell?!
Your puppy pulled and then you fell?
Did you bonk your pretty noodle
chasing after Uley Poodle?

Accident Allison, Jeezum Crow!
Did you stub your middle toe?
Did it meet the metal rake
while you raced a garden snake?

Accident Allison, what’s the news?
Is your bottom slightly bruised?
Did you fall backwards on your tush
while charming frogs beneath a bush?

Accident Allison, Holy Smoke!!
Your back-left foot is nearly broke?!
Was your latest peccadillo
dancing with an armadillo?

You’ll never be a train conductor,
ballet coach or ski instructor.
Such dreams are best subordinated —
you’re too uncoordinated.

Your fortunes are deplorable
but charms are unignorable:
ingenious, wise and beautiful,
good-natured and adorable!

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Eric Robert Nolan

Eric Robert Nolan’s writing has appeared throughout over 50 publications in 10 countries: the United States, Canada, Britain, Ireland, Germany, Romania, Turkey, India, Singapore and Australia. These include Newsday, the Richmond Times-Dispatch, The Roanoke Times, The Free Lance-Star, The Daily Progress, the Eunoia Review, The Galway Review, Every Day Fiction and Quail Bell Magazine. His work was also selected for 18 anthologies, two chapbooks and six mini-books. He was one of only eight poets worldwide selected for The Galway Review 12, the esteemed Irish journal’s 2024 poetry anthology. He was nominated for the Sundress Publications 2018 Best of the Net Anthology, and for Spillwords Press Awards in 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023. He is a past editor for the dystopian literature journal, The Bees Are Dead. He was entered in 2022 into the national Poets & Writers Directory.

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