Wordsplay

Well, here’s a thing I’ve never understood:
why butterflies cannot be et on toast
why Post-It notes are never stuck on posts
and woodwinds sometimes aren’t made out of wood?
Pennies turn up bad, but gold is good
and roller-coasters don’t live at the coast
but we’d be less confused about the most
obscure proverbs, if words did what they should.

A piece of verbiage can go astray
and stick itself in unrelated words
like ostrich eggs in nests of hummingbirds—
so badly out of place that one could say
the questions up above are just absurd.
Don’t take it serious! It’s all in play.


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