I Had a Thought

Today is Light Verse Thursday, and I’m giving myself permission to post an exceptionally silly verse:

I Had a Thought
(1967)

I had a thought the other day,
While falling down the stair.
“I’ll shortly land, quite hard I fear,
I guess I’d best prepare.”
And then I thought:”Suppose I say
I quite refuse to fall.”
Quite brave of me, with land so near,
To thus attempt to stall.”
And then I saw, to my dismay,
My final landing spot.
“I can’t go up; I’m on my way.”
And then I thought: “Why not?”

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