It Can Happen to You

It Can Happen to You
By Quizmo LaGrande



It can happen to you,
So watch what you do!
Don’t fritter or poke
Or do something that won’t
Allow you to grow
Up big and up strong
(Your parents will wonder
What the heck they did wrong?)
To a nice healthy size,
So supple and wise,
You can swim ‘cross a river,
And claim the first prize!
You can be someone,
The truth will be shown;
You can think up great thoughts
And discover unknowns!

Or else you can sit there
Grinning and bald
Just sitting, not knowing,
Nope, nothing at all.
Just thinking you’re cool
“Hey, look at me!
I’m stoned, and I’m high
It’s the best way to be!”
But smoking and drinking
Will just cause you to drool.
Smoking and drinking
Will make you a fool!

“Won’t happen to me!”
You babies all groan.
“We’ll grow just the same,”
You collectively moan.
But watch it, my friends,
If you smoke and drink wine
You’ll block out the sun
And leave kid-hood behind
Not growing up healthy
And wealthy and wise
You’ll live in a shadow
Much to your demise.

Soooo...

Wait till your big
‘Fore you drink and you smoke.
After you’ve grown
Do drugs and snort coke.
Turn to stone then
When you're large and you're old
And gained all your wisdom
And earned all your gold;
When your tummy’s much bigger
Due to all your hard play
Of lugging and chugging
And feasting and… hey,
Your belly could be
A perfect display--
Perhaps even modeled
In marble someday!
Then the world will acknowledge,
Bow and tow-tow,
To a “big” bellied baby;
So don’t do it now!


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