pickin' boogers

 

 

Everybody's got 'em.

Big ones small ones.

Sticky ones. Dry ones.

The ones with a hair in it.

You've seen 'em.

You've picked 'em out.

Some of you have

 

Eaten them.

 

Mmmmmm good.

 

Sometimes,

There's a hard one

Like an anchor

Attached to a wet sticky one

Sometimes, there's one

Wrapped all the way around

The inside of

The nostril.

 

 

Sometimes, it's not a booger

But a scab

 

Because you pick your nose

Too much.

 

But then

You can pick

The scab.

 

Sometimes,

There's a booger

On a scab.

 

Mmmmmmmm good.

 

Sometimes

There's a booger

On a scab

With a hair in it.

 

Sometimes,

The entire

Inner nostril

Is covered

Like a manhole cover

With a booger

 

And when you

Breathe in and out

It opens and closes.

 

Some have sand.

 

Some are brown and

Some are green and

Some are translucent.

 

It's the translucent ones

You have to watch out for.

 

But...

 

Pick and

Eat them anyway.

 

 

 

-- miller