Piggies & Toes

Piggies & Toes

by Amanda Kuehner     

Piggies and Toes?

I suppose I can guess why my Mom confuses these two…

After a long time at play both can make you say Peee Uuuu

But they are different sizes and shapes.

Different colors, heights and weights.

What else is the same about Toes and Piggies…

Both can be useful and both can be wiggly

It can be confusing.  Cut Mom some slack.

She knows how to give you a ride on her back

And when your nose is runny, she knows just how to wipe it

So it doesn’t hurt really, and so you even kind of like it.

What’s your favorite snack?  Carrots, cookies or Crème Brule?

I bet that your Mom knows and makes it for you- oh, yea!

So your Mom counts your piggies?  1… 2… 3…

When you ask her, she’ll push your swing, and for free.

That’s right she never charges you for services rendered

Whether it’s kisses or hugs or when you borrow something you wouldn’t lend her.

So I think it’s weird and silly

That Mom thinks a toe is a piggy.

She never confuses pink with green or blue with red.

She almost never confuses polka-dotted shoes with a stripy bed.

Or a Panda with a Llama; or a snake with an ape

There’s just the one thing she can’t get straight.

I will say that my Mom knows what she knows

I mean… she’s NEVER called a pig a toe.