My Excuses(Author: Arielle Perkins)

 

I started on my homework, but my pen ran out of ink.
My hamster ate my homework.
My computer's on the blink.
I accidentally dropped it in the soup my mom was cooking.
My brother flushed it down the toilet when I wasn't looking.
My mother ran my homework through the washer and the dryer.
An airplane crashed into our house.
My homework caught on fire.
Tornadoes blew my notes away.
Volcanoes struck our town.
My homework was taken by an evil killer clown.
Some aliens abducted me.
I had a shark attack.
A pirate swiped my homework and refused to give it back.
It took so long to make these up
I realized, with dread,
it would have just been easier
to do the work instead.