Mellow Musings

I’ve never really seen a toad
    sitting on a toadstool.
A cheating mushroom farmer
    has bad morel character.
I wonder what your life is like
    if that’s what you call fun, gus?
Edible, yes, but some will kill
    and others make you mellow.
Not your favorite?
    Be a good spore, don’t make a fuss.
I’m kind of guessing portobello
    was a portly fellow.
I don’t know who could live in those;
    there doesn’t seem to be mush room.
Shiitake is the trash-mouthed one
    who has bad takes and fumes.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2022


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Date: 11/2/2022 9:45:00 AM
Mushroom humor at its very best. I never thought of Gus as a fungi. He is much too negative.
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Date: 11/2/2022 9:24:00 AM
Wonderful writing! Wow...you are indeed a fine poet. I don't think that I could raise mushrooms, unlike in nature, needing abundance, too many then procured from the dark. Though I have never tried~ what do I know? Gus sounds like someone to avoid. Blessings my friend.
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Date: 11/2/2022 9:21:00 AM
Your imagination and sordid wit runneth while, Jeff! Thoroughly enjoyable.
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