Many have not come to terms
with the benefits of worms.
They find them repulsive and squishy.
Revolting, creepy, crawly, ishy.
But these folks tend to just react
without examining each fact
of all that folks could find to do
with worms if they’d just buy a few.
Granted, worms that wad and mingle
lack the charm of just a single
worm that can be used for bait
on a hook and with a weight,
but every person knows this use,
which always calls for worm abuse.
Worms, however, also toil
to break up and aerate the soil.
In jars with holes poked in the lids,
worms make good pets for little kids.
Good for hours of watching, they need
little care and little feed.
Worms don’t need collars, leashes, dishes,
never go against your wishes.
They are not barkers nor run-arounds.
None of the nastiness of hounds.
They have no hair to grow and shed.
You do not have to pat their head.
They have no other nasty habits
like gerbils, hamsters, cats or rabbits.
You don’t have to change their litter.
When traveling, you don’t need a sitter.
No vet bills when your pets are worms–
no fleas nor ticks nor mites nor germs.
Worms take up very little space
and may be trained to run a race.
And if you make a well-placed bet,
they just might get you out of debt.
The benefit of worms now told,
May I consider this worm sold?
Surely you’ll find much to do
with one or two that leave with you.
If you’re not a fisherman
and if a pet’s not in your plan,
If you are a sadistic sickie,
just put one down your girlfriend’s dickie!*
*for the youth among us, a dickey is a turtle neck or collared inset
that may be worn under a vee-necked sweater or jacket to create the illusion that one is wearing a sweater or blouse under it.
The Prompt: Embrace the Ick–Think of something that truly repulses you. Hold that thought until your skin squirms. Now, write a glowing puff piece about its amazing merits.
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
really loved your sustained rhyming couplets. I am sure we could have a lengthy conversation speaking only in this metric and rhyming pattern. Great piece of work. Anton.
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Thanks, Anton. I sometimes think in rhyme. I can be annoying. I try to limit its use with friends, lest I have no friends.
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Thanks a heap – I have a whole new liking for worms! That’s the sign of a good writer!
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so have I, the sign of a good reader ! 🙂
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So have I, the sign of a big imagination, as I HATE WORMS!!!!!!!! A restauranteer once told me, as I was chewing a big mouthful of it, that there were ground up dried worms in the salsa I was eating. I couldn’t go back to this favorite restaurant for four months. He had cooked a precolumbian feast and seems this was standard fare back them, but I am a modern gal and I don’t eat no worms!
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That double negative is meant to convey the extent of my horror over actually putting a worm or worms in my mouth.. Ewwwwwwww!
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I know how you feel. I actually ate cockroach when working as a journalist in Cambodia and was sick. One of my Australian colleagues loved it! As they say in Yorkshire “There’s nowt so queer as folk!” 🙂
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Love that quote! I had to eat dog in Timor. It was cooked especially for me while the others ate pork! Don’t know why the dog was considered a delicacy as it was tough and flavorless. I balked at eating the monster Palm beetle grubs in Peru, however. There are some lengths I won’t go to even for politeness. The children were looking at them so hungrily that I didn’t even feel guilty. More for them.
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Dear God in His creepy-crawly-less heaven! Yuck!
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Nicely doe. Enjoyed the mischievousness of the ending!
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