A BOWL OF CANDIES
If you are in diet there’s one thing
you shouldn’t have near
and that’s a bowl of candies for
you will eat them I fear
you are busy doing something and
your hand just goes astray
and before you realize what’s happened
the candies dwindle away
have I eaten those candies you think as
you see the half empty dish
and when you climb on the scale
you have a desperate wish
that someone will be kind and take that
candy dish out of your sight
or somehow stop that pesky hand I
have veering to the right
I’ll take them into the kitchen
then I’ll be much thinner
that didn’t work either because I just nibble
while cooking so spoil my dinner
I wish this dish was empty and all the lovely
candies eaten and gone
until then I’ll just have to keep eating them
until the task is done.

M Ann Margetson March 17, 2002
2002/1951/candy/humour