Don’t ask me how this one came about, I’m not sure that I remember entirely. Meg and I were admiring someone else’s poetry and, for whatever reason, began to marvel at the idea of rhyming words with ‘cosmos’s’. Personally I think that it all depends on the pronunciation, but Meg reported back to me an hour or so later that the best words, in this regard, were halitosis, scoliosis, and osteoporosis according to her Dad (a man of letters) and from that notion she created a song idea with a working title of ‘My Spine is all messed up and I have bad breath.’
I gave that idea some thought and arrived at the following …. it’s all about the nature of inspiration, really
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Halitosis, Scoliosis, fucking Osteoporosis
Now you’ve told me all about, it must be like osmosis
You’re stinking and I’m thinking maybe I am stinking too
I’m noxious, I’m obnoxious. Maybe I’m just like you
You’re walking like a cripple and you’re talking like the plague
My mood is sort of fickle, my understanding kind of vague
You don’t look too fantastic, like a spastic. Smelling worse
Now you’ve told me, you’ve involved me.You’ve given me the curse
You’re explanation, its damnation. I wish that you would quit
My back is out of whack, my breath it smells like shit
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P.S. Those of you born around the middle of last century may recall that Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious would work quite well. As would precocious. It was difficult, in fact, to uncover words that Mary Poppins hadn’t already used. That’s my excuse.
Richmond Road 
HA HA HA H AH AH AH HA!! Oh my gosh, I’m printing this blog post for my dad!! I showed him the poem earlier, and he loved it!! Freakin’ hilarious!! You have no idea how much I hope the judges assign you comedy this upcoming weekend!! I’ll be bummed if they don’t!
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I’m afraid that is a pic of me before I ended up in the wheelchair😃 Loved the ditty.
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What are you talking about? It’s a photograph of me taken back in the old days when I was a real ladies man.
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😃
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what? No Thrombosis?
you have always been a ladies man, and you always will if you keep writing poetry like that
I am deeply er, ah, impressed
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An oversight . Let me make it better for you …..
Look into my eyes
Let me give you my prognosis
You are falling for my charms
A victim of hypnosis
Let me infect your lungs
Just like tuberculosis
I’m heading for your heart
Your personal thrombosis.
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the rhyming is outstanding!! 😆
I enjoyed it.
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the rhyming is outstanding!! 😆
I enjoyed it
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I must say that your writing is anything but atrocious.
Thanks for the giggles!😂
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Such kindness from strangers … I always feel like the recipient of so much kindness that stands in stark contrast to what I provide. I can but only thank you sincerely
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jeez pops you aren’t aging so well … this really is a bit precocious!
Just like you 🙂 Thanks for the smile!
This would be a good one to link to my funny/silly prompt!
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