Thursday, April 04, 2013

DIV - Navel Personnel


Three Word Wednesday requires participants
to use the three words of the week in a composition.
The words this week were lick, squint and argue.

"Scientist" had an article on navel flora and fauna; 
it seemed a suitable topic. 


Navel Personnel

If you gaze into your navel,
Beyond the ball of lint,
You’ll find several dozen life-forms,
More, if you care to squint.

Scientists argue over names
To give these little guys
And lick their lips, with some high hopes,
To get a Nobel prize. 

What puzzles me about this case
Is not the motley crew—
It’s why, despite the colour choice,
The lint is always blue.

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© J Cosmo Newbery 2013
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17 comments:

  1. lol the lint is always blue.

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    1. Get Cosmo to tell it one of his jokes...

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  2. So, is it safer to eat Valencias?

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  3. I am having rubies in my navel They are being red, isn't it?

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    1. Never thought of a sapphire...?

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    2. Sapphires are being for the daughters of persons with the status that is belonging to municipal officers and below. Please be showing respectfulness.

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  4. Ha - love this - straight from current events

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  5. Of course knowing this about you, I now see you in a different light (a dim one)For God's sake man, soak your crevices in a long hot bath and keep your hands on your head!

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    1. Well, consider yourself lucky - I don't normally scuttle out into the light.

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    2. We all consider ourselves lucky.

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  6. LOL! Love it.

    By the way, did you know the lint isn't always blue? Its colour depends on what you wear. Blue if you wear jeans, for example. Yellow is you have yellow trousers and so on...

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    1. Ah, damn! I had a bet on who would be the first to tell me that and you weren't even on the tally board. Oh well...

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  7. There was a study done about why navel lint is always blue. Dr Karl Kruszelnicki won an Ig Nobel for it.

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  8. This is a novel navel poem!

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