Trouble with Tornados, The Ogress Chronicles, Chapter IX

The Ogress was still fuming
when her father’s thunderous voice
awoke her from her sleeping
the morning after she went bathing… 

He wanted her to drive the truck
to the field 5 leagues away
(She knew he had forgotten
how utterly she detested
those fields of cotton hay!) 

He knew she wasn’t happy,
but knowing that deep trouble
always seemed to swell around her,
he couldn’t resist one small request
as he walked out the door,

“Please, just make sure
you don’t park
in any tornado holes!”

 The Ogress ate her breakfast
and then got in the truck.
She drove it out past 7 clouds
(The drive took 2008 seconds)
and stopped it by the field. 

As she got out
she slammed the door,
(to show she was still angry)
but just as she was turning ‘round…
her heart did a double take! 

She was hearing a strange whirring sound
that could only mean one thing,
and sure enough…
when she glanced down
she realized her mistake…

The anger drained out of her soul...
(It was replaced with panic!)

Her eyes had caught
the nasty sight
of a wheel in a hole!
(Tornado hole, that is…) 

She thought that she could fix it
without Dad even knowing,
but as she walked around the truck….
she realized she was sunk!
(Literally, that is…) 

Dad called to her,
“What’s taking so long?
Come on, get out her, dear!”
But the Ogress just looked out at him
as her eyes filled with tears.

Knowing his daughter as he did,
he knew there was a problem.
He hopped down from the tractor
and strode to where she stood.
Glancing where her eyes traveled,
and listening while he did,
he could only shake his head… 

He had asked her to be “Steward”
over one little simple task,
and THIS is what he found??? 

He turned to her
and shook his head
with hardly any sympathy.

With laughter, and some anger,
in his gusty voice he muttered,

“Uz-um-cuo-glu…”
(He was trying not to swear…)
“Daughter,  How did you…
do THIS?
-Four tires perfectly parked
in four tornado holes….
and to their ax-ile(a)’s too???

Now ‘It is hard, I agree, [but]
I [would] like
the simple and truthful explanation!’”

to be continued....