The Dirigible Balloon
Poetry for Children

Hoover

You suck!

Don’t tell me that is fact,
you know what I mean.

You suck!

And of all the days when I need
you to be on top form
and you to suck.

And what are you doing,
lying there in a cloud of dust,
with no suck.

You are like an iguana in the sun,
sitting, doing nothing, waiting.

You suck!

Well, if you are waiting for me,
I’m clueless
as to why you’ve no suck

and your manual has long gone.
It seems that I suck too.

About the Writer


Jill Vance

Jill Vance is a poet and interdisciplinary artist. Her poems have appeared in Truth Serum Press, Pure Slush and Green Ink Poetry. She hopes one day to have a pamphlet published of poetry and artwork.