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Does That Make Any Cents

Does that make any cents

Sight sound smell taste and touch
are the five senses

not to be confused with

five census

because

you don't need all of your senses

to be listed in a census

does that make sense to you?

five pennies should be called five cents

but isn't that called a nickel

does that make sense?

maybe that's why in Canada 

we don't use pennies any more

it just didn't makes cents 

although the change

was difficult to handle

we don't have to... anymore

get it...

handle change

oh well,

anyway, I digress

Don't you find it odd

that having five cents is

not like having five senses

or five census...ok ok 

let's have a consenses
 
or should I say consensus

there you go...

so as was mentioned...

one of the five senses

is smell

so here's the problem

let's say there are five scents

that you must smell 

and they all

cost a penny each

so isn't that five cents

to smell five scents

but only using one of 

the senses, 

does that make any sense?

John Derek Hamilton
April 03,2016

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Cheryl Hoffman April 3, 2016 at 8:52 PM I totally agree with Jan, very clever and a very humorous tongue twister too! This poem tickled my funny bone! John Hamilton April 6, 2016 at 9:55 AM Thanks Cheryl

Jan Allison April 3, 2016 at 5:17 PM ha ha ha I love homophones and this poem is so so clever - quite a tongue twister of a read John:-) hugs Jan xx John Hamilton April 6, 2016 at 9:56 AM Thanks Jan