Bed and sun are worth a snail

BED AND SUN ARE WORTH A SNAIL

By Daniel de Culla

 

It happened in Rita’s Pergola

In Moradillo de Roa, Burgos:

The Potato Beetle or Dorifora

Climbed onto the shell of a snail

Which said it had come

From Santa María de Sacos, Galicia

Fallen from a rainy cloud

A stormy morning with sun.

It climbed onto its spiral shell

Because it wanted to escape from the banana slug

The wasp, the fly or mosquito

And because it wanted to fulfill the sentence of:

“When it rains and the sun shines

Get on the snail’s shell.”

Since with good sun the snail opens its eyes

Some wasps asked the snail:

-Where are you going, snail, with that Dorifora

Riding on your shell?

It replied:

-Let’s watch the part of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

(Picture book that Kylian and Eder are reading)

In which Ron Weasley tries to put a spell on Draco Malfoy

With the “slug swallower” spell

Resulting in Ron being the one who receives the spell

Because of his broken wand

Beginning to vomit slugs.

-But you’ll have to be careful, Snail

Because the children’s grandmother is saying

Right now, to their parents:

-Snails, grapes and figs should swim in wine.

-And what do you have to say to us about this?

The wasps asked the Potato Beetle:

It replied:

-That bed and sun are worth a snail.

That the Snail is marking the steps for the potato field

Leaving a silver path.

Also, it never puts on a bad face

Even if they give it cabbage or kale.