Scrounging for boogers wrought my damn nostrils nearly to bust

Scrounging for boogers wrought my damn nostrils nearly to bust 

Warning: The following material no worse than getting cooties. I remember them way back in grade school, whereat everyone ran away from me with worse luck than Georgie Porgie, pudding and pie, who kissed the girls and made them cry, when the girls came out to play, Georgie Porgie ran away.

My humblest apology 
if the following account
doth gross thee out 
forlorn childhood of mine, 
but remembrance of things 
past icky and sticky
bumper crop of divine 
nose diving delectable
diamonds secreted by 
the mucous membranes 
of the respiratory 
passages, especially when 
produced in excessive 
or abnormal quantities, 
e.g., when someone 
is suffering from a cold
found further ostracization 
of me tantamount
being shipped off 
to a leprosarium.

As a chronic gold digger 
in early grade school, 
specifically within nasal passages, 
I excelled at 
locating awesome gooey gems. 

The pinky seemed 
most opportune for 
button nose of mine as most 
convenient handy dandy 
blue's clues implement 
to mine for juicy 
succulent wads of yuck. 

Early academic ex: pear
re: ants helped refine 
delicate art of reaching 
pitch perfect snot. 

This individual craft essentially 
entails extensive dexterity 
in conjunction with 
recognizing ideal picking time. 

If one plunges 
the little finger prematurely, 
nothing but a glob 
of gook will dribble out. 

Best to wait until rock 
hard sensation felt 
when applying pressure to 
either nostril. 

The consistency of rock candy the 
best analogy for this 
other than tasteful habit 
instinctively learned when 
being housed in the womb. 

Upon birth one 
or more phalanges often 
solidly locked where mucus generated. 

This common medical 
condition frequently requires 
delicate intervention 
(usually minor surgery) 
to separate glued 
gummy intertwined proboscis 
from fleshy mitts. 

As a natural born miner for 
the most moist 
and choice septum byproduct, 
this lad as one gangly 
whipper snapper mastered 
the art of sifting 
thru the sinus cavity to extricate 
boulder sized buggies 
wrote the book on the 
ole factory chews. 

Unlike many other young 
children who fancied 
this fun hunt for miniature crusty 
crab cakes like formations 
as delectable treats, 
this grown man 
when a little boy chose 
to paste them on under
side of his desk. 

No particular strategy for affix
sing goop upon 
the underneath section of old 
fashion unit (whereby 
the top opened up and 
provided a dish like formation 
to store materials) 
motivated this daily 
cultivating for ripe buggies. 

Within very few months, 
the front most section 
became quite thick 
with wads of buggies that 
quickly hardened into 
scaly coating displeasing 
even to my 
high tolerance for gross. 

Since no preliminary 
measure for measure 
took place to map out 
where to place 
the collection of daily glob, 
inevitable contact took place 
with aging dried 
buggies that felt 
like molting shells of insects.
 
Nightmares eventually 
took place incorporating 
this scary goblin 
like creature (usually dripping
lugi with mossy slime), 
which sought out his 
insatiable hunger for buggies. 

In these dreams, 
I tended to be honored 
with razor sharp fangs 
and dagger type fingernails. 

The latter came 
in particular service 
to probe my pinocchio-
sized smeller with 
amazing ease to scrape 
practically to the brain 
(and perhaps some 
grey matter did 
get unintentionally removed) 
to appease the buggy monster. 

Soon after wake
king up in a start 
from this nightmare (when 
outsize still pitchblack), 
a blurry image seemed 
to dart away 
leaving soggy footprints 
closely resembling phlegm!
Copyright © | Year Posted 2025


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