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To the Boy Picking His Nose

December 3, 2023 2 Comments

By Shaurya Pathania

I see you crafting boogers on the canvas of a huge room’s door. Boogers must be the dust you play in and the dirt you lie in. I don’t feel gross at all. Don’t stop, keep it. It’s funny how I’m not able to do so. I have the same fingers, a similar nose (a little bigger though); I got boogers too, but I can’t place them out like you do, so gracefully.

You laugh out loud, but no one laughs at you. Your nose is clean from inside; even though my nose shines from out, yours is better than mine.

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  1. Cathryn says

    December 3, 2023 at 10:04 am

    Very unusual topic. Health experts warn the worst thing for introducing virus and germs into system is boogie-picking.

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  2. Paul Scott Wood says

    December 6, 2023 at 10:29 am

    I agree with Cathryn. I hate to see little kids with a finger up their nose to the first knuckle. Their parents don’t seem to care about it, though.

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