Some levity for the day...
 
ODE TO DIRT!
By Michael Burkard
 
Dirt, dirt, most wonderful dirt,
How can one calculate how much you are worth?
I delightfully dig, and burrow, and scoop,
Roll, and wriggle, and romp, and scooch!
 
You go up my nose and into my eyes,
You fill my ears with joyful cries.
I fling you both far and wide,
I rub you on my dirt-deprived hide.
 
Sand and clay, dirt and dust,
Love you, love you, everyone must[elid]!
Mud and silt, gloppy, wet muck,
Gleeful-ly I dive and buck.
 
Earth, sweet earth, you smell so good,
If I could eat you, you know that I would.
With you smooshed in my fur all matted,
My people take me to bathe -- drat it!
 
 
This poem originally appeared in the WNYFLFA newsletter
_Ferret_Chatter_ earlier this year.
 
Enjoy!
Mike
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[Posted in FML issue 1410]