jerry

i’m not sure if this story is true

but i’m goin to tell it to you 

and if it sounds like you know the end

it’s probably cuz it happened to you

it was a while back in a farmhouse trap

in the year of two thousand and ten

when a kid named jerry

lived with her mom n dad

and her mutt dog called maximilien

now old max got given to jerry one day

when she had just turned seven

it was two months back exactly today

on february the eleventh

now jerry was an only child

her mom wasn’t much around

n her dad’s schizophrenia was undiagnosed

he spent his time starin at the ground

so jerry spent most of her time

outside the cigarette-stained house

but she didn’t really have any nearby friends

so she spent her days wanderin about

n then one day she found herself

in her neighbor mr scott’s old house

who had just got through a messy divorce

n his kids just moved out of the house

well mr scott had some funny-lookin rocks

that he claimed were real dragon eggs

and a plastic bus he drove down the stairs

when he drank so much he lost his legs

n jerry went to scott’s house more n more

until she went almost every day

n her parents were just glad to get her out of the house

so they didn’t have a thing to say

but one day when she came by

jerry felt like somethin wasn’t the same

mr scott had a different tone in his voice

when he said hello n called out her name

she didn’t say nothin though she felt a bit strange

when he insisted on playin this game

where he chased her around

then pinned her to the ground

n then felt her all the way up her leg

as soon as he let her get up

jerry ran straight out of the door

she jumped the fence, threw up

and collapsed on her bedroom floor

the next couple days jerry hung round the house

her mom didn’t ask n dad said not a word

she watched movies with ol max

n sat at the window watchin birds

but one day jerry was with max in her room

the documentary was on insects and pairs

n it was at the part where the mantis comes out

and teaches us how to make prayers

when all of a sudden was mr scott on top

and pinnin her down to the bed

n jerry yelled ‘get out’ freaked out

n pounded her fists on his head

she kept hittin him hard till he was on the ground

n then beat him right into the floor

but right then let out a lil sound from his mouth

n jerry stared at her hands in horror

cuz there on the ground was no mr scott

but her lil mop-headed dog max

n when she looked up there was her mom in the door

with her jaw gone completely slack

‘oh god’ said jerry ‘mom let me explain

i sleepwalk. god made me

ol max went feral n started to bite

some boy down the street, he paid me’

then jerry stopped speakin n burst into tears

she n mom hadn’t been very close for years

‘you’re cruel and no child of god’ mom cried

‘i’ll but the fear of your parents back into your eyes!’

so there jerry cowered at the foot of the bed

while her mom picked a leather belt out

ol max ran off n jumped the fence

n ran to no other house than that of scott

n in the next room over jerry’s dad woke up

n blinked fast to open his eyes

he’d been seein nothin but demons for days 

but he woke up to hear jerry’s cries

in a minute or less he rushed into the room

n at the same time as he arrived

came back ol max with one mr scott

that the dog had dragged in by the hide

n jerry sat there all bruised n detached

surrounded by mom dad dog n scott

n as she took a deep breath n wiped away tears

she heard the sound of a cold gunshot 

now i don’t know the end but i think every way you look

the family’s never comin back

but if you wanna hear what really happens next

might as well ask their old dog max