Eulogy For A Terrapin, by Annabelle Cooke, age 8½.
I liked the way you ate your food,
and swam about the place.
I didn’t like to clean up your poos,
or the way you hid your face.
When you get to your Heaven,
could you ask God (or Jesus)
that Annabelle would like to know
why they thought you should leave us.
(Also, if you aren’t too busy,
please ask Father Christmas
if I can have another terrapin
for my birthday, or maybe Christmas.)
Farewell, Mr. Terrapin,
it will be sadder here without you.
I’m sorry that you died today.
There’s nothing else to say about you.
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Andrew Cheverton is currently the writer of the western comic West (drawn by Tim Keable) and the science fiction comic The End (drawn by FH Navarro), and the writer - and soon-to-be illustrator - of horror comic The Whale House. Thank you for reading.
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