My Good Morning

I get up; first i wash my face

and brush my teeth in second place.

Now, before the shower gets hot

i have cleared my nostrils of snot.

I didn’t go to bed dirty,

and i got up at five-thirty.

So, what has happened in between

to make me feel i am not clean?

I look back at the dreams i had

and most of them were not so bad.

I did nothing to soil myself.

It must have been an inner elf.

If that devil made me do it,

my nose cleared up when i blew it.

Walt Abbott–11-20-2009