Gershon Wolf Poet Light Verse

Somewhat Injury-Prone

First grade, pelted with eggs
  Second grade, broke both legs
Third grade, fell down the stairs
  Fourth grade, clawed by a bear

Fifth grade, ran into a tree
  Sixth grade, twisted a knee
Seventh grade, concussed my head
  Eighth grade, fell out of bed

Ninth grade, had meningitis  
  Tenth grade, appendicitis
Eleventh grade, torn hamstring
  Twelfth grade, acute bee sting...

So, to allay any fears from admission committees
  I wrote the following college application ditty:

You may consider me somewhat injury-prone
  But I have yet to break my first wishbone
And I give you my whole-hearted assurance
  That I will use my parents' health insurance

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Freddie Robinson Jr. November 27, 2020 at 5:49 PM Good Humor health poem, Gershon. Laughter is the best balm medicine for the blues (I'm covid-enced of this.) lol! Thoroughly modern enjoyed this poem, friend-o. Love and more love always.

Rama Balasubramanian November 20, 2020 at 11:33 PM Reading it again especially last para college application. Too good. I read it of and on to laugh. thanks Gershon Wolf November 21, 2020 at 6:07 PM Glad to provide a little laughter, Rama, esp. in these times. Thanks for letting me know. This makes my night. Appreciated. ~ Gershon

Caren Krutsinger November 20, 2020 at 5:59 PM Broke both legs in second grade! Hopefully not at the same time! I know more about you now than ever before. Thank you Gershon. Gershon Wolf November 21, 2020 at 6:08 PM Haha! How I broke them is something you don't know yet --- and I'm not telling! ~ Totally Embarrassed, 6 Decades Later

Beryl Edmonds November 20, 2020 at 1:52 PM You didn’t have much luck back then Gershon... what a hoot, love the college application ditty... Belle Gershon Wolf November 21, 2020 at 6:09 PM Not to worry, my luck's gotten worse since then. lol. Happy weekend, Gershon

Kim Rodrigues November 20, 2020 at 5:28 AM LoL, especially fourth grade thrown in as if it was normal to be clawed by a bear! HaHalol Kim Rodrigues November 20, 2020 at 1:11 PM Wow, I can bear-ly contain myself with your composite sketch ;) Gershon Wolf November 20, 2020 at 8:27 AM Well, a 4th-grader in one of my son's classes actually got pawed by a bear near his family's motel on a trip to Gatlinburg, TN back about 15 years ago, amazingly enough! ~ Just-a-fact-checking here, lol ~ Gershon

Rama Balasubramanian November 20, 2020 at 3:49 AM I can't stop laughing. Too good. Thanks for posting. Adding to fav to read and laugh again and again... Gershon Wolf November 20, 2020 at 8:25 AM Rama, I really appreciate the FAVE. Thank you so much for all of your encouragement and support! Keep smiling, Gershon