The Raven

Be Glad You Mouth is on Your Face

By Vyperbites

Be glad your mouth is on your face
Not glued to some other space
For if your mouth were where it’s not
You would hate your mouth quite a lot

Imagine if your busy mouth were to impose
Being sandwiched between those globes
That clearly would not be a treat
To talk the shit than have to eat

Your mouth would make you dead
If it were placed upon your head
It would soon be bonked in despair
While matting up all of your hair

Within your ear oh please can you see
So damn loud it would be a catastrophe
For when you are obligated to shout
Your brain surely would fall right out

Your mouth will be through thick or thin
Between your nose and your chin
Not moved to some other place
Like some alien from outer space

So be grateful you bastard that it is there
Rather than in your underwear
Where it might bite you so be kind
Leave it there do not rewind


Be Glad Your Nose is on Your Face

by Jack Prelutsky

Be glad your nose is on your face,
not pasted on some other place,
for if it were where it is not,
you might dislike your nose a lot.

Imagine if your precious nose
were sandwiched in between your toes,
that clearly would not be a treat,
for you'd be forced to smell your feet.

Your nose would be a source of dread
were it attached atop your head,
it soon would drive you to despair,
forever tickled by your hair.

Within your ear, your nose would be
an absolute catastrophe,
for when you were obliged to sneeze,
your brain would rattle from the breeze.

Your nose, instead, through thick and thin,
remains between your eyes and chin,
not pasted on some other place--
be glad your nose is on your face!