[CH] OT fun - Some Little Bug
Kristofer Blennow (kristofer@blennow.se)
Sun, 30 Jan 2000 22:58:25 +0100
Well, since we discuss the hazards of foods and eating
from time to time, (or, rather, ignore them... :),
I thought I'd forward this... from Douglas Powell's
FSnet mailing list.
Enjoy (especially the last lines... ;)
Kristofer
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SOME LITTLE BUG
Jan. 30 2000
Roy Atwell
(Forwarded by Charlie Gracy,
though to be from a poem published in a 1945
book, and probably writen before that - dp)
In these days of indigestion,
it is often times a question
As to what to eat and what to leave alone
For each microbe and bacillus,
has a different way to kill us,
And in time they always claim us for their own.
There are germs of every kind
in every food that you can find
In the market or upon the bill of fare
Drinking wateršs just as risky,
as the so called deadly whisky
And itšs often a mistake to breathe the air.
Some little bug is going to find you some day
Some little bug will creep behind you some day
Then hešll send for his bug friends
And all your earthly trouble ends
Some little bug is going to find you some day
The inviting green cucumber,
gets most everybodyšs number
While the green corn has a system of its own
Itšs behaviour is quite viscious
And a doctor will be coming to your home
Eating lobster cooked or plain,
is only flirting with ptomaine
While an oyster sometimes has a lot to say
But the clams we eat in chowder
make the angels chant the louder
For they know that wešll be with them right away
Some little bug is going to find you some day
Some little bug will creep behind you some day
Then hešll get into your gizzard
If you lose him youšre a wizard
Some little bug is going to find you some day
Take a slice of nice fried onion,
and youšre fit for Dr. Munyon
Apple Dumplings kill you quicker than a train
Chew a Cheesy midnight RrabbitS,
and a grave youšll soon inhabit
Ah to eat at all is such a foolish game
Eating huckleberry pie
is a pleasing way to die
While sauerkraut brings on softening of the brain.
When you eat banana fritters,
every undertaker titters
And the casket makers nearly go insane
Some little bug is going to find you some day
Some little bug will creep behind you some day
With a nervous little quiver
Hešll give cirrhosis of the liver
Some little bug is going to find you some day
When cold storage vaults I visit,
I can only say what is it
Makes poor mortals fill their systems with such stuff
Now for breakfast prunes are dandy
if a stomach pump is handy
And your doctor can be found quite soon enough
Eat a plate of fine pigs knuckles
and the headstone cutter chuckles
And the grave digger writes a note upon his cuff
Eat that lovely red bologna, and youšll wear a wooden
And your relatives start scrapping bout your stuff
Some little bug is going to find you some day
Some little bug will creep behind you some day
Eating juicy sliced pineapple
Makes the sexton dust the chapel
Some little bug is going to find you some day
All those crazy foods they mix
will float us cross the River Styx
Or theyšll start us climbing up the milky way
And the meals we eat in courses
means a hearse and two black horses
So before a meal some people always pray
Luscious grapes breed Tpendicitis,
and the juice leads to gastritis
So thereUs only death to greet us either way
And fried liveršs nice, but mind you
Friends will soon ride slow behind you
And the papers then will have nice things to say.
Some little bug is going to find you some day
Some little bug will creep behind you some day
Eat your sauce, they call it chili
On your breast theyšll place a lily
Some little bug is going to find you some day.
- Roy Atwell