A Spoonful of Medicine

(family meal, my muse should be ashamed of herself)

While seated at our table

a random remark was heard,

resulted from another's bark.

Sparked a loud laugh,

disabled  the eating.  

My humour

both sticky and tacky,

weird and wacky,

untimely in its nature

reacted with vigour.

Peculiar when provoked,

I nearly choked.

Broke into a fit of giggles,

turned into jelly

unable to put the brakes on. 

Noisy laughter erupted,

after which it escalated.

Spread like a wild fire

so rapidly,

everyone joined in.

What fun in the room,

no gloom here.

On and on it went

until eventually

we lost scent of how it started.

Then someone farted

and off we all went again

Author's Note

there should have been spaces after each five line stanza, why it didn't work I haven't a clue, you now have a long scarf
can't edit it either, something wrong with the programme

Reviews

[Davidgeo]

It felt like you were describing human consciousness and memory. How things just kinda fade into and out of the present moment in varying degrees of vividness ... no one really remembers being born, no one really knows exactly when they're gonna die... which then made me think of time travel and that it isn't really impossible at all, it just isn't like Michael J Fox made it look like. I just watched a youtube video on strange physics though so I might be way off your actual meaning.

[Chris Shaw]

Happy that you could find something to say about my writing. Gaseous emissions I guess could come under the heading of science :) Thank you David.

Chris

[Pete]

LOL. this is delightful. well, laughter is the best medicine after all. surprise ending lingering long after i finished reading. a lighthearted, clever and amusing anecdote. now where did i put that can of spray ... :)

[Chris Shaw]

Thank you Pete. We all need to laugh more. There isn't much laughter around these days. Thanks for visiting.

Chris

[Lea Sheryn]

When I first saw this, I thought of A spoonful of sugar but you certainly surprised me at the end. I think we have all been in similar circumstances.

[Chris Shaw]

Thank you Lea. My muse was out of sorts when she brought me this. She doesn't normally misbehave:)read moreThank you Lea. My muse was out of sorts when she brought me this. She doesn't normally misbehave:)

Chris

[Lea Sheryn]

Your muse was having a little playful fun with it. It was delightful!

[Chris Shaw]

Thank you.

[Lea Sheryn]

You're welcome

[Lorry]

Well thanks Mary Poppins, for the earworm from that bloody movie, which I was tortured with as a child. 😀
These things are just fates way of making us all chill the hell out and not take ourselves so seriously Chris, hence why we all lose it and giggle like six year old. I mean, when was the last time you saw a stressed out kid? Now go help clear the table or no jelly for you 😀

[Chris Shaw]

Ha ha Lorry. You make it sound as though you were strapped into a chair and force fed Mary Poppins. What an act of cruelty:) Yes this bout of contagious laughter, we all found our inner child at the same time. Now where's that jelly?

Chris

[Lorry]

No physical cruelty, only mental. Sisters, eh? 😀

[Chris Shaw]

How did you guess? Sisters among many others:)

[Lorry]

I've got three of them 😀

[Chris Shaw]

I've got two. My eldest grandson told me the other day that when the three of us get together there is a power surge. He says there is an overload of energy in the room :) You know the score then!

[Lorry]

Yup. Hence the spontaneous singing breaking out 😀

[Chris Shaw]

Bet you are spoilt rotten are you the youngest?

[Lorry]

Nope and nope. I was fourth of five. Believe it or not, I was the quietest. How times change 😀

[Chris Shaw]

Ha ha. :))

[jacob erin-cilberto]

oh this is too funny....saw a scene in a tv show recently...similar to those situations we used to have at the dinner table, when the laughter was so contagious...that almost everything that came out of anyone's mouth had everyone in stitches.
j.

[Chris Shaw]

Thanks Jacob. Contagious laughter doesn't happen often, but when it does we should drink it up. Thank you.

Chris

[Samuel Dickens]

Ha-ha! Is flatulence ever not funny? Not in my world! When I saw the title, I immediately thought "Spoonful of sugar", but the subject here is rather far from being sweet. You and your family sure sound good natured.
Now please forgive me for telling a personal tale. Once while standing in ranks, awaiting muster, I cleared the whole formation out with one of those little silent-but-deadly gas leaks. One of the sailors yelped, "Whoever did that oughta be proud of it!" Another one growled, "Yeah, he oughta give it a name!"
The fact that I was the only one still in formation was a bit incriminating.

[Chris Shaw]

Sam, thank you for sharing. I found your personal tale very amusing. So pleased you shared it. All good wishes.

Chris

[Edie Blue Starfish]

These are some if the best memories. I can see this scene as is if it was my own memory. Right down to the farting aunt who either peed or farted when she laughed real hard. This was so great to read.

[Chris Shaw]

Hello Edie, pleased you enjoyed this one. So glad you could relate. We all need humour.

read moreHello Edie, pleased you enjoyed this one. So glad you could relate. We all need humour.

Chris

[Jibey]

It's good when family times create merriment - even if disorderly. As for the fart - well, families know about that all too well... and sometimes the uncontrollable laughter leads to uncontrollable wind!

Somehow it's good to capture those moments in words...

[Chris Shaw]

It was certainly merry. It is good to capture these moments and be able to reflect on them. I don't know why but farts always seem to get a laugh, especially at the right moment. Thank you Jibey for your visit.

Chris

[Jibey]

I find they are not so amusing in bed 😷

[Chris Shaw]

Nah, not the best moment :))