Last night our 11-year-old daughter & I thought of a fun idea for a poem, & before she went to bed, she helped come up with a list of rhyming words to include. I stayed up to put it together, & the photo you see is our 16-year-old son in glorious "double-barrel snotgun" pre-pandemic panache (c.2008)! Enjoy our silliness!
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YES IT'S NOT
Some have claimed the blame for all the trials life has got
Lays squarely at the feet of nasal mucus we call "snot."
But is it true that snot is what made famine, greed and blot
Of war, and all the world's disasters with which we are fraught?
It's not!
Others take a limited line of reasoning and thought,
And blame snot only for bodily woes: diseases' dread onslaught.
So is it true that snot's the cause of all forms of cancer and clot,
Stroke, AIDS, hormone imbalance, gout, depression, and gunshot?
It's not!
All the same without blame in case our race has honestly forgot:
What keeps moist our inward parts for the purposes they're wrought?
What traps dust and smoke and soot to eliminate the rot?
What do you think it is that captures colds before they're caught?
It's snot!
