[ WP ] Write a modern day nursery rhyme or children 's fable .

Jimmy walked the four miles to town each day, and each day he would see Mr. Davey sitting in an old straw chair with an older straw hat. 
 
 `` Hi, Mr. Davey,'' Jimmy would sing. 
 
 Mr. Davey always looked tired. 
 
 `` D'ya hear about that fellow two counties over that got shot?'' he'd say. Or `` y'know there's some disease what's spose to get to the corn come August, do n't ya?'' 
 
 And each day, after seeing Mr. Davey, Jimmy would walk a little slower and grunt instead of whistle. 
 He'd run into someone else, share the day's news, and they're shoulders would drop as his had. 
 
 One day, after hearing the morning update, he slouched and walked kicking a rock until he ran into the old preacher. 
 
 `` What it is, little man?'' said the Rev. Shaft. 
 
 `` Oh,'' Jimmy started, `` the world's just dark is all.'' 
 
 `` You got damn right it is,'' answered the reverend with a signature afro pat. `` Oh, you mean shit's depressing you?'' 
 
 Jimmy nodded and looked back down the road to where Mr. Davey sat telling someone else about how the kids were using codes to leave sexual messages in the cow dung. 
 
 `` Shid,'' Rev. ^Shaft said following his eyes. `` You been talking to Tom Brokass, huh? Listen, there's a lot of shit in the world, but there's way more grass, dig? Only way you ca n't see that is if you stick your head in the shit and dig, dig?'' 
 
 Jimmy walked away smiling with a sense of calm complacency. 
 
 Then he got struck by lightning.
