Le Voyage Magnifique

My Snot

I am very sick
so I have to lick
my snot
from upper lip quick
or it gets too thick
with clot,
and then I just flick
the boogers I pick.
So what?

Notes on the Lai form of poetry ▼

The Lai is an old French form with a nine line structure of 5, 5, 2, 5, 5, 2, 5, 5, 2 syllables and a rhyme scheme of a, a, b, a, a, b, a, a, b, as described and demonstrated in the following links:

https://dversepoets.com/2019/04/25/poetry-form-lai-and-lai-nouveau/

https://www.poetrymagnumopus.com/topic/686-lai-family-of-forms-lai-lai-nouveauky...