Cookie Monster and the Incredible Shrinking Man

It's a funny nightmare for a grown woman. She used to like Grover, running from one end of the living room to the back end of the kitchen, "Here!" she would exclaim, and touch the cupboard and run back. Whatever it was that cookie monster did to end up in her nightmares, she cannot remember. Only one day, he travelled there, and took up residence, deep in her psyche. He is entrenched. Enter the Incredible Shrinking Man -- an old black and white movie she used to watch on WDIV Duluth TV. It scared the hell out of her, especially the part where he had to fight the spider. Mix the two together in the mind of a 5 year old and you have a recipe for a recurring nightmare that has spanned nearly forty years:

"Yum yum, me gonna get some,
 A bite of that little one --
 use my shrink ray gun".
 
 Zip zap it's all done,
 now I am tiny,
 can't you see?
 "Somebody help me!
 way down here,
 right by the plug,
 yes that's me,
 I'm Grover;
 no bigger
 than a bug!"
 
 Big blue hands reach
 from above me --
 "No please!"
 And just like that,
 it's all over
 no more Grover,
 that Cookie Monster,
 he's insane,
 He just flushed me
                          down
                               the
                                    drain.
    

 

Author's Note

If you didn't think I was whacked before, you may think so now. :)

Reviews

[ron]

Hmm, maybe You wanted the Cookie Monster there all this time? Just a thought. Interesting poem KL

[Lyn Anderson]

Hmm, then he should have shrunk my enemy and not me ...

[Zahra]

Interesting, fun to read . . .

[Lyn Anderson]

Thank you for stopping by. A trip into my deepest, longest, darkest secrets ...

[Tate Morgan]

This does remind me of a night mare i had once thankfully i no longer have nightmares like that .

[Lyn Anderson]

I am a funny person. Most the time, I wake up and think cool! I gotta write that one down ...

[Baby Ricochet]

Well this was fun. I appreciate that

[Lyn Anderson]

Thanks so much, I appreciate you stopping by.

[redzone]

Ok I'm convinced.. so are you the reason they put the cookie monster on a diet??? Now all you hear about is Elmo, Elmo, Tickle Me Elmo... phetttttt :-p. How can I find cookies now KL?? He would always help me find where the cookies were hidden.... I want my monster.. er... red regaining his composer.... all I can say is, your poem is very, aaah... tasty... ;0)

If I find him I will tell him to give you cookies and not haunt you... pssst look under your pillow every morning... thanks KL... ~~red(goingtobuysomechocolatechipcookies)zone

[Lyn Anderson]

Very funny, and very clever. I forgot about the whole Cookie Monster eating veggies thing.

[redzone]

Yeah I mean what the heck is a veggie monster any way. I love veggies but I would be very afraid of a veggie monster ...

[Lyn Anderson]

I really don't need politically correct dieting puppets, isn't that what people are already?

[redzone]

Well nothing wrong with being politically correct, but this is the cookie monster we're talking about .. I mean cookie monsters eat cookies .. now if they want kids to eat veggies cool then maybe as he is munching on cookies he can tell kids to eat their veggies too ..

[redflutterby]

Lmao...I was watching some pretty scary stuff at five. Rarely had nightmares. I know I'm whacked!! ;-)

[Lyn Anderson]

Funny thing is, I also watched some scarier stuff. Weirdly tho, this is the dream.

[redflutterby]

Lol...never know what we will dream about. Ive had some pretty insane ones.

[FlamingPhoenix]

Umm...wow! I like it--whacked works well for me...imagine that.

[Lyn Anderson]

Thanks so much.:)

[The Rock And Roll Cowbo..]

That is one interesting nightmare, the human psyche plays with our reality by mixing it with fantasy till it is a swirl of madness.

[Lyn Anderson]

Oops I forgot to comment on this one. I think the weirdest part is the fact that it hasn't left me.

[The Rock And Roll Cowboy(REBEL WITH A CAUSE)]

That is interesting indeed.

[00000000000000000000000..]

Smiles I like the whacky stuff lol:)

[Lyn Anderson]

I knew you would.:)

[0000000000000000000000000000]

:))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))

[Leigh]

Writing unusual, off the wall poetry requires a steady mind, so whacked you are not. You put me in the minds eye of the child and the fears they entertained and ran away with them. I remember The Incredible Shrinking Man, particularly when a cat was trying to eat him, also he always seemed to be fending off spiders with knitting needles etc. Hope this doesn't bring it all back :-)

[Lyn Anderson]

Yes, the spider was what got me. I forgot about the cat, lol.