Being Human

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If you're good or you’re bad
If you’re happy or sad
If you’re angry or glad
You are human

If you're bald or you're hairy
Or fearful or scary
If you’re brave or wary
You’re human

If you hate scrubbing floors
Or repainting your doors
Then you are indisputably…
Human

If you sing like a lark
Or your voice is a bark
Or you howl in the dark
You are human

If you’re normally nice
But you’ve made a device
To put rats on ice
You’re still human

If you order your cat
To go catch that rat
Then you’re daft as a bat
But you’re human

If you locked all your doors
Due to Texas Chainsaws
Shunned the sea after ‘Jaws’
That’s just human

But if you, unlike me
Didn’t cry in E.T.
Then I hereby decree
You ain't human

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Gershon Wolf

Date: 6/20/2024 7:25:00 PM

T.F., phone home!! ~ Gershon

Beryl Edmonds

Date: 6/20/2024 6:45:00 PM

Fantastic! If you’ve a nose that grows - Like Pinocchio’s - Then everyone knows - That you’re human…… Beryl

Jan Allison

Date: 6/20/2024 4:11:00 PM

what an entertaining poem Terry and yes i still cry at ET lol:-) hugs Jan xx

Terry Flood
Date: 6/20/2024 5:16:00 PM

As I said to David.. it was a fly in my eye….. oh… er… I mean grit… oh… er…. ;-)

David Kavanagh

Date: 6/20/2024 3:22:00 PM

No surprise here Terry, I never cried watching ET, but I did laugh when they blew up jaws, so I’m a bad (non human) I guess lol! some great fun lines here, Oh no the captcha E9t cheers David

Terry Flood
Date: 6/20/2024 3:26:00 PM

When I said ‘cry’ I did, of course, mean ‘had some grit in my eye’…. I mean… I’m no wus! Hmmm… never thought much about how to spell wus… er woos… er wuss… oh heck… you get my drift ;-)

Ilene Bauer

Date: 6/20/2024 1:56:00 PM

bravo! i totally agree, terry, but have to reiterate how delightfully entertaining your poems are! you can make a point in the most charming and poetic fashion and are a pleasure to read...

Terry Flood
Date: 6/20/2024 3:34:00 PM

Thought I’d laid a rotten egg with this one when two hundred reads resulted in one obscure comment… that’s poor, even by my standards. So, thanks, Ilene… maybe I won’t take up knitting after all ;-)

Deb M

Date: 6/20/2024 12:46:00 PM

Hear Hear Mr Flood!! Debx

Terry Flood
Date: 6/20/2024 3:40:00 PM

Thanks, Deb. This was half-done in my slush pile. Tinkered for days to get a coherent whole. Here’s hoping that tomorrow is ‘new ideas day’. Terry

Lin Lane

Date: 6/20/2024 9:35:00 AM

and if some have nothing nice to say, they should clap their hands over their mouths... Your poetry always entertains me, Terry. I appreciate you, especially in these days when PS seems like a foreign land.

Terry Flood
Date: 6/20/2024 11:48:00 AM

Thanks, Lin. You’re certainly right about changes in soup: it does somehow ‘feel’ different. Hopefully it will bounce back soon… it would help if I could actually write a line… maybe tomorrow.