Suta-Gyoushi

I grew a house on my head. I populated it with animals: a mouse for a housekeeper, a lizard in the kitchen cooking eggs, a butler wolf whistling and saying 'sir', a chinchilla to sweep rooms' corners, a giraffe wiping windows, a black Labrador pup to clear the chimneys. The house is old fashioned but it runs to time. A sloth winds the clocks; a badger delves the vegetable patch. Everyone gets on fabulously and will eat eggs together at breakfast, gossiping about the awful state of my head: how the tubes in my brain need scrubbing out, you can tell because the plumbing gurgles and the lights in the attic flicker at unexpected h