I've been to the edge
and I stood and looked down
but it wasn't my friends that I lost down there
baby

 

my fragrant soul
duped by curiosity
and that tractor-beam stench

              I mean, nothing is as bad as 
                 it smells

                         right?

              and exactly what sound does a
                    rock make when it hits
                liquified chicken manure?

            and when rocks don't sink
              bigger rocks must sink them

                       and bigger rocks
                      lead to bigger rocks

        and toddlers don't have a very good sense of

                             balance



some things are worse than they smell

and even with cow water and tomato juice
the smell lingers for a long time

            sometimes a lifetime

so I avoid curiosity and manure pits now

and I don't throw rocks

and people still tell me that without curiousity
there is no learning

and I tell them
there are some things not worth learning



Author's note: the first stanza is an adaptation of Van Halen's "Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love"