Skip The Budgie

Do not touch the jelly!
Its wobbly goodness must not be sullied
By your insouciant prodding.

Do not touch the jelly!
You might have got away with that
With a blancmange.

Do not touch the jelly!
Better men than you have died
Assailing its quivering buttresses.

Do not touch the jelly!
Were I ten years younger, I would crush your fingers
Mangling them betwixt my teaspoons.

Do not touch the jelly!
Though it looks bejeweled and dazzling
It is not so transparent as you think.

Do not touch the jelly!
The gelatinous, glistening glory-pudding
Is no man's plaything.

Do not touch the jelly!
A child's curiosity is charming
But screaming results.

Do not touch the jelly!
Beneath the trembling surface
Dark foreboding resides.

Do not touch the jelly!
Though delectable to the eye
Digits will suffer its wrath.

DO NOT TOUCH THE JELLY!

Warned, you were, with many forbiddings.
Now, with anguished cries, you know the truth.
Without your questing fingers, how indeed,
Will you touch future desserts?