get this booger out of here.

For Momzilla, and her inspirations ...

I felt it
scraping,
oozing,
irritating,
falsely
accumulating ...

I picked at it
delicately,
at first,
thinking it
would,
just go away ...

soul empty,
it needed
a new
receptacle,
and for a time,
I was it.

but it
festered,
and grew,
green and
infected,
and I knew ...

it was time
to just
get that
booger
out of here,
and flush ...

Author's Note

for Momzilla, enjoyed the conversation today. I would never steal your words, only borrow some thoughts ...
If you LOOK you will find the answers http://timdanes.tumblr.com/

Reviews

[Baby Ricochet]

Even if it's a metaphor a poem about a booger gets two thumbs up from me

[Lyn Anderson]

Yay for boogers. I mean EEEWWW

[Caradoc]

Darn you! Reading this made my nose start itching like crazy. lol Ugh...that is one nasty booger. Maybe bleach is needed? :P

Nicely done, my friend.

-Cara

[Lyn Anderson]

Yes, apparently the booger is fond of bleach. At least, that is what I heard ...

[Delmar Cooper]

Thank you for broaching the fascinating subject of boogers. In my part of the world it is not the bogie or bogeyman that abducts rebellious children it is the boogerman. And I have it on good authority that the Boogerman _Will_ get you if you don't watch out." So forewarned is forearmed.

I have heard it said that the Albigensian Heresy, so vigoriously stamped out by the church of Rome and the throne of France, originated in Bulgaria or what is now Serbia, and at one time the Bulgares would get the unwatchful and unwary. So saith the bishop.

Nowadays we simply unfriend the phantom or blow our collective nostrils. Easy peasey Japanesy. Former associates now safely located on the underside of the desk.

[Lyn Anderson]

Yes, unfriending and placing on the underside of the desk would be prudent at this point. There are many, many people here sticking their heads in the sand and doing nothing. This sends the booger the message that it's perfectly safe lodged where it is.

[Delmar Cooper]

Somewhere in my closest, no that's the raccoon coat, maybe on the shelf, ah there it is, my moth eaten Crusader Rabbit costume. I wonder if it still fits? BTW I entered your contest.

[Lyn Anderson]

Yes, I saw that. I must refrain from comment until the contest is concluded.:)

[NoelHC]

That's nasty! Remind me to never ever ever ever ever get on your wrong side! Great rant, BTW.

[Lyn Anderson]

If you fall out of line I will just smile and say "BOOGER!":)

[NoelHC]

Ewwwww. I am never, ever, ever, ever get out of line then. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WA4iX5D9Z64

[Frieda P]

HOLY goobers I'm glad I didn't inspire this one. ha ha Ewww yucky stuff....

[Lyn Anderson]

Ya, eh? I can't believe what you get when you google booger

[Frieda P]

He reminds me of that flat fish too, just not as perdy....

[Lyn Anderson]

Yeah, well, not sure he's as perdy as what I googled ...

[TL Boehm]

eeeeeeew. A nice big cup of mocochino. Laggh. Oh but the poem is spot on and the sentiment strong.

[Lyn Anderson]

Isn't the booger ball the grossest thing you have ever seen? Let's get the booger gone.

[AprilRN1210]

O...M...G......haha!! what a concept... fitting, and funny... this is quality entertainment here ma'am... oh yes, definitely got a huge giggle out of me... (wheeeew.. needed that laugh)
and the song?... oooooh yes!!!!

well done!!

[Lyn Anderson]

Thanks so much. I am trying my best to jump up and down and get attention for this -- lets oust him -- somehow ...

[AprilRN1210]

I have blocked and unfriended... :)

[Lyn Anderson]

Hopefully more people will get the message -- BTW how many people raved about "HIS" poems and gave him 1000s of views and reviews when they weren't HIS? Doesn't that just PISS you off proper? I don't agree with the sentiment of being quiet and sitting back and watching him. He needs to be gone. AND BTW if the perpetrator is watching the feed -- if you remember me sending a nice message to you about loving you and your stuff, that was never intended for you, it was a misdirected message and I just didn't want to hurt your feelings at the time -- I don't see a need to spare the feelings of one so devious and cruel. I don't believe a thing you ever told me, and I will never know if anything you wrote was actually yours.

[AprilRN1210]

The message has been spreading, but agree, could be louder... I will send my friends who haven't viewed your pieces RR for them and see about writing one myself... see what my SASS can do... and I agree, does piss me off a little yes... and also creeps me out with all those aliases... gotta love Rene for verifying.

[Lyn Anderson]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-LTWFnGmeg
(Tate gave me this link and I think it is brilliant). And please, read the following if you have not done so already. The most effective way to oust the perpetrator is to stop feeding his ego, and to shut him down by unfriending him. If he has no more friends, he has no reason to stay.
http://www.writerscafe.org/writing/amendoim1988/1382629/
http://www.writerscafe.org/writing/amendoim1988/1382204/
http://www.writerscafe.org/writing/amendoim1988/1381925/
http://www.writerscafe.org/writing/amendoim1988/1381725/
http://www.writerscafe.org/writing/amendoim1988/1381713/
http://www.writerscafe.org/writing/amendoim1988/1381061/