Chewing Gum Conundrum
The Widow Wyile has been
contemplating this cinnamon
conundrum
for some hum time
During recent travel
experiments
with ways to
chew through some
highway time
she crunched some
sticky possibilities
riddled through here
just
for
you
Chew chew
gum gum
bubble snap snap
chewing gum chewing gum
bubble snap fun
What so often becomes
mindless
can be extra fun
when you focus
upon e v e r y
gum chew gum snap
bite
Lo!
Do you hear?
choose what you chew
Jack Daw trilling
no No, STOP i say
for the sake of your jaw
don’t be mindlessly
chomp mess
stressing
the muscles of your maw
What if
Dear Feathered Jack
we were to chew
with conscientious purpose?
A purposeful compromise perhaps?
Chew once on the right
Chew once on the left
yum gum one
yum gum two
chew chew chew
three right
three left
stretch snap fun
four times from back
to front, left, left
right right right right
five times from front front
to back back
right, right, light, light light
deft left left deft left
three right
three left
stretch snap fun
four times from back
to front, left, right
five times from front
to back, right, left
then back to four
three two
one
one
two three
four five one
fun two
four three
five play gum
chew
A conscientious chew
will take you
slowly and surely
into a meditative space
chew count chew
crossing back and forth
gum one gum two
bubble snap bubble
chew three chew four
focus fun five right
fun gum focus left
snap pop snap
what number do you favour
when you chew slowly
slowly chew
slowly s l o w l y chew
your conscientious gum?
Jack Daw, what say you?
Could this unusual approach
serve your jaw muscles
or is it simply better
chewing gum
to eschew
bid bubble snapping
mastication
adieu?
The alternative
should you chews
is here for you
as gum free versery