The Cherry Pit

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When Frank was just a boy of eight,
He stuck two cherries up his nose--
Chalk it up to an act of fate,
Just why he did it no one knows.

One dropped out and a nostril cleared
The other jammed too far.
His mother couldn't see it there,
Being super-cautious not to mar.

Their doctor checked, but not too well,
And pronounced it just a phantom,
So, of course, Frank's mother felt compelled,
To declare the issue verbotten.

Fifty years later on a TV show,
Maury Povitch scooped the story--

"Frank, tell me how you lived so long,
And honestly didn't know?"

"I assumed I had an allergy,
Until another doctor found the thing
We were told was never there.
He worked until I felt it spring
Out of my mouth into the air!"

"It was decomposed and raw--
Older than the doctor who removed it!
My wife is thankful now, I don't snore,
But, I can't say I feel better one bit."

Charles Albano - CharlesAlbano@adaptive-leadership.com