Short Metal Detector Poems

Been carrying one since I was five, to school and everywhere, moons 60 now
         Cut leather, whittle on a stick, never as a weapon, where has common sense gone?
If I was to go through a metal detector at any airport now, the knife would be a tool of mass
destruction!...

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At the airport a young director
Ready to film a new TV show
Walked through the metal detector 
Forgetting his nail clippers in tow

He had put them in his pocket
Down a hole the clippers fell through
Then just as the alarm went off 
He said, "There's something in my shoe!"

Gun drawn an officer yelled, "Halt!"
Thinking about what he should declare
He said, "I'm just here to shoot a pilot"
And it quickly went downhill from there!...

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