General Poetry posted April 16, 2018 Chapters:  ...133 134 -135- 136... 


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A chapter in the book Worlds

Worm World 3

by Bill Schott


You have heard of the apple bite,

and the worm that was bitten in two:

but I will tell you the truth of it now,

though it may be shocking to you.


We start at the fruit that was eaten,

a pear, not an apple at all;

and it was not bitten but pared,

by a knife with no trouble at all.   (Sorta)


Now was it a worm that was severed,

since most of the story is wrong?

According to hospital records,

the knife cut deep and long.


A finger fell to the floor,

amputated by chance from a hand;

but somehow today it's related

in a way that we don't understand.


Years from now it will be a pineapple,

that a man bit into with zeal,

and found that he'd halved a small creature,

a miniature E-lectric eel.

 

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