Day 158

Today's words:

Midget
Ketchup
Corn
Midwife
Flea
Tornado

The midget
Doused his fries with ketchup
And then attacked the corn.
His mother was a midwife;
His father had owned a flea
Circus. He was born during a tornado.

They always said that the fear of the tornado
Had stressed his mother so much he became a midget.
Either that or a flea
Had bitten her, poisoning his genes. Asking for a bottle of ketchup,
The midwife
Prepared to pour it on her corn.

To put that on corn
Stirred up a tornado
Of controversy, but the midwife
Didn't care. If the midget
Could use ketchup
So could she. Next stop, the flea

Market. My last flea
Market finds were a pair of corn
On the cob holders
And a ketchup dispenser.
Despite having been born during a tornado
The midget
Didn't blame the midwife

Who'd delivered him; he knew the midwife
Had done all she could. Maybe a flea
Bite was the cause of him being a midget
And maybe not. He tried the corn
That had started the whole tornado
Because of the ketchup

Controversy.  He didn't really like ketchup
That much, but he ate it to please the midwife.
During the tornado
When he was born, the flea
Circus was destroyed, as was the corn
Field. And he was born a midget.

Is that ketchup or real blood? A flea
Should be able to tell. The midwife ate her corn,
As the tornado swirled around the midget.