Thursday, January 29, 2009

Today's Verse: 30 January 2009

Facial tissues: necessary evil
Or
Life quality index?
What to do
With the stuff that comes from the nose?
And tears?
Who advocates return to the uncomely snotrag?
Lumpy and soiled in a ball in your pocket?
Or the dainty ladies hanky?
Can't handle volume but has other uses as well, courting rituals.

It's only the uncouth regions whose indigents are blind to their deprivation
And freely honk and spray without shame or inhibition.

Yet it pains me to imagine the unfortunate tree
That lived and died to provide me a wipe.
May I not somehow return the favor?
Donate my corpse to an Arboreal Service Brigade?
I fear they'll have no need of my remains
Other than to festoon them to attract carrion feeders
Like the Parsis do.
No skin off my nose.

2 comments:

JimPreston said...

Some people think this stuff is funny but it snot.

JimPreston said...

I didn't really want to but I had to.