I told the man <br />'I think I am... <br />I think I am a moth'. <br />He looked me up and down <br />and quite politely coughed. <br />And then he laughed and said to me <br /> 'watcha tellin me that, for? <br />can't you see <br /> dat dis here be <br />just a grocery store? <br />You need to go to the hospital <br />dat's were you might belong' <br />'I know' I said, and scratched my head <br />'but I saw your light was on! ' <br /> <br />I went to see a shrink <br />he finds my claim fictitious <br />but secretly, I think <br />his suit looks quite delicious. <br />I told him I was a bookworm <br />earlier in my life <br />and what happened when I confessed <br />to the woman who was my wife. <br />She thought it was the absurdist <br />thing she'd ever heard <br />but when I finally left her <br />I left her without a word <br /> <br />so I had myself committed <br />but the head doc didn't agree <br />'you should never have been admitted <br />this institute is insect-free' <br />Out across the verdant grounds <br />I fairly flew, I didn't jog <br />'cuz one of the patients there <br />thinks he is a frog <br /> <br />So to another shrink I went <br />and she gave me a great big smile <br />and then she called her entomologist friend <br />and talked to him a while <br />She said 'lay down on my couch, <br />and tell me more of this moth biz' <br />but I can plainly see <br />she's figuring what my net worth is! <br /> <br />'Honey! ' I woke with a scream <br />'It was that moth joke song again! <br />but this time in my dream <br />at least you weren't a mounting pin'. <br />'That's good' she says and winks <br />her beady eyes so sweet <br />then she rubs me with her eight little legs <br />and we scurry down the street.<br /><br />Chuck Audette<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-moth-joke-song/
