by Elsie Duggan
Member since:
November 8, 2006

You Can't Eat Everything You See - WWE

October 26, 2009 01:38 AM EDT
views: 182 | rating: 10/10 (12 votes) | comments: 61

 

Little boy you're tired 

I know you are blue 

Mommie  took that worm 

away from you 

But you know that you can't eat them 

There are other things to do 

Your world is as big as you make it 

And worms have their lives too 

Don't pick that damn thing up again 

Listen to me will you  

Mommies words have messages they send 

Better take a nap now 

You will feel better if you do 

I'll lie down beside you 

We'll both get needed rest and 

I will buy you candy worms of blue

 

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Pompts for October 21st, due October 27th by noon:

  • Include some controversy

  • Use an expletive

  • Someone should eat something that is not edible

  • Use the phrase: Your world is as big as you make it.

  • tag with wwe

 

 

 

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Comments: 61

Shelbia C. Oct 26, 2009, 1:57am EDT
I think you did a great job and it felt so true to life.
Elsie Duggan Oct 26, 2009, 2:00am EDT
thank you Shelbia, remembering my kids when they were small, all wanted to eat worms, don't ask me how it got into this prompt, I guess eating something
that is not edible, lol.
Barbara H. Oct 26, 2009, 2:13am EDT
Ha!Ha! Elsie! Your a HIP gramma you know about the fruity worms. Great poem and yes when one begins to read it, it sounds just like you talking to your son in the way you would. Wonderful!
Elsie Duggan Oct 28, 2009, 2:57am EDT
thank you Barbara, yes I know about the fruity worms, have had a few myself, against my will, you know.
Kathryn E. Oct 26, 2009, 2:13am EDT
This was adorable.........


Featured in the Triple Name Club.
Elsie Duggan Oct 28, 2009, 2:58am EDT
Thank you Kathryn and for the feature
Melissa Underhill Oct 26, 2009, 2:34am EDT
That's so cute! :)
Elsie Duggan Oct 28, 2009, 2:58am EDT
Thank you Melissa, memories
Infinity M. Oct 26, 2009, 7:13am EDT
very nice - i really enjoyed readin this
Elsie Duggan Oct 28, 2009, 2:59am EDT
thank you very much Infinity , glad you enjoyed it
Steph-in-NE ..... Oct 26, 2009, 7:24am EDT
that was great,, we were watching a program on food network the other day,, they had worms on carmel apples,,
Elsie Duggan Oct 28, 2009, 3:00am EDT
Oh my gosh, Pamela was here on Sunday and she had a recipe for Halloween for a cake that looked like a kitty litter pan, it was gross looking she had a picture, but she said everyone asked her for the recipe , had tootsie rolls for you know what, lol.
Barbara B. Oct 26, 2009, 8:27am EDT
You've done it again Elsie !! Penned another cute little poem !!

Thanks, love you, Barbara
Elsie Duggan Oct 28, 2009, 3:01am EDT
Thank you Barbie, I appreciate your coming by
Barbara B. Oct 26, 2009, 8:28am EDT
Today is my fourth Gatherversary !! WhooHoo !!
Elsie Duggan Oct 26, 2009, 11:37am EDT
Happy Gatherversary Barbara, Have a wonderful day ,
Lois Cochran Oct 26, 2009, 9:10am EDT
Great job! I can remember those times . . . wonder how they survived eating all those interesting things???
Elsie Duggan Oct 28, 2009, 3:02am EDT
don't know but don't you think maybe we did a bit of that too, can't remember worms, but sure I tasted lots of things I shouldn't have, lol
Angela A. Oct 26, 2009, 9:51am EDT
I never ate worms myself. But, I sure did pick a lot of them up as a kid. I treated them like pets, as in I petted them. Te he!
Thanks for posting to my group, Anythingwriting
Elsie Duggan Oct 28, 2009, 3:02am EDT
I hated the touch of them, neat idea as a pet, just a little dirt will do it I guess, thanks for commenting Angela
Dawn G. Oct 26, 2009, 10:02am EDT
I never ate worms either but I did go fishing with them when I was little.
Elsie Duggan Oct 28, 2009, 3:03am EDT
I put many worms on fish hooks for my kids, and my husband, he couldn't do it, lol
Ruth MacGill Oct 26, 2009, 12:17pm EDT

Well done as usual, Elsie. You always give something special to all the poems you write.
Elsie Duggan Oct 28, 2009, 3:03am EDT
Thank you Stevie, I do try to do that, lol, Happy Halloween
Natalie Neal Whitefield Oct 26, 2009, 12:53pm EDT
This is so sweet!
Elsie Duggan Oct 28, 2009, 3:04am EDT
Thank you Natalie
Kay M. Oct 26, 2009, 12:53pm EDT
LOL. This is really cute! Cutest use of an expletive I've seen in a long time.
Elsie Duggan Oct 28, 2009, 3:04am EDT
well, I didn't see how to fit one in, lol, but it called for one, thank you Kay
Leo Lemmer Oct 26, 2009, 1:38pm EDT
Keen!
Elsie Duggan Oct 28, 2009, 3:05am EDT
Thank you Leo
Cristina S. Oct 26, 2009, 2:18pm EDT
lol Elise, worms, eeeuw...
Elsie Duggan Oct 28, 2009, 3:05am EDT
that's what I say eeeuw ...
Donna C. Oct 26, 2009, 3:34pm EDT
Great poem Elsie.
One of the grand-daughters got me to
pet a worm. I had never even touched one
before, and she was so cute telling me how
nice it was........So I petted it........Ugh!!
Elsie Duggan Oct 28, 2009, 3:06am EDT
yeah , huh, kids do like the darn old things, lol
Larry H. Oct 26, 2009, 9:11pm EDT
thanks for sharing. nice poem..
Elsie Duggan Oct 28, 2009, 3:06am EDT
thank you Larry,
Ed Da Head Toker Oct 27, 2009, 5:59am EDT
Worms, were the more "agreeable items" amoung the US Army's "eat off the land course."
I will NOT mention any other thing the army claims is edible, yet not tasty.....
Did you know that worms taste like elmer's glue??
Susan Budig Oct 27, 2009, 11:35pm EDT
Euwww, Ed! How do you know what worms taste like?

No, don't tell me. :-P
Elsie Duggan Oct 28, 2009, 3:07am EDT
How do you know what Elmer's glue tastes like, lol, that's more mysterious
Elsie Duggan Oct 28, 2009, 3:12am EDT
Ed my husband used to tell me about what they ate to survive during WW2,. I could never really believe it, but I guess if you are hungry enough you could try,
Ed Da Head Toker Oct 28, 2009, 9:30pm EDT
Elsie, I was one of 5 that got into a "squirting elmers glue fight" in kindergarden.
uh, after that, was the first, of many hundreds of visits one of my parents had to make to the principle office.
Susan Budig Oct 27, 2009, 11:34pm EDT
I plain, ol' liked this, Elsie. I laughed at the way the mother's words progressively grew in energy as she tried to convince the boy to leave the da-- worm alone. :-D
Elsie Duggan Oct 28, 2009, 3:08am EDT
I thank you Susan, you got me to use that da.... word. lol,
Worms? No, in our neighborhood, since we made mud pies, those were what we ate! They didn't taste good either.

But my Mom did teach me this ditty about worms, I don't know if someone wrote it or if she made it up.

Nobody likes me,
everybody hates me,
nobody wants me around!
So, I went out to the garden,
sittin' in the garden,
sittin' in the garden, eatin' worms!
Big fat squooshy worms,
squish-squash, gooshy worms,
sittin' in the garden eatin' worms.

I still wonder if she was trying to tell me something :=D
Susan Budig Oct 28, 2009, 2:23am EDT
Song Lyrics & WordsNobody likes me, everybody hates me,
I think I'll go eat worms!
Big fat juicy ones,
Eensie weensy squeensy ones,
See how they wiggle and squirm!

Down goes the first one, down goes the second one,
Oh how they wiggle and squirm!
Up comes the first one, up comes the second one,
Oh how they wiggle and squirm!

I bite off the heads, and suck out the juice,
And throw the skins away!
Nobody knows how fat I grow,
On worms three times a day!

Nobody likes me, everybody hates me,
I think I'll go eat worms!
Big fat juicy ones,
Eensie weensy squeensy ones,
See how they wiggle and squirm!

But I can't find the author! I'll keep looking.
Elsie Duggan Oct 28, 2009, 3:09am EDT
Oh my gosh Susan, eeewwwh
Elsie Duggan Oct 28, 2009, 3:14am EDT
Very nice Marilyn, thanks, cute song, I remember something about worms in a song, but I think it was a not so nice one, trying hard not to remember the words, lol
William Dotani Oct 28, 2009, 1:13am EDT
This should be read first before you sit down to a Spaghetti dinner.
Elsie Duggan Oct 28, 2009, 3:11am EDT
Oh yeah William, that is true, as a matter of fact when my kids were small, sucking spaghetti down and calling them worms, was very familiar in our house, I don't think they ate the real ones, one never does know, does one.
William Dotani Oct 28, 2009, 9:17am EDT
There is a place in Louisiana that has real earthworm pizza. Maybe you want to vacation there?
Heather ~of the Whippets~ M. Oct 28, 2009, 2:20pm EDT
Earthworm pizza? Um... I'm glad that I wasn't eating when I read that.
William Dotani Oct 28, 2009, 3:05pm EDT
The very nobel of you to wait until having guests over for a Spaghetti dinner to read verbatim what I wrote. I thank you and you probably enjoy an escargot. Oui! Oui!
lynn a. Oct 28, 2009, 3:12am EDT
This rings so true when there are small children in the home. It was cute.
Elsie Duggan Oct 28, 2009, 3:15am EDT
Thank you Lynn, what you all doing up so early in the mornin , love your accent
lynn a. Oct 28, 2009, 3:39am EDT
I fell asleep early tonight and woke up a little while ago. So of course, what would I do, but get on Gather. Now getting ready to go back to bed.

Thank you. Normally people laugh when they first hear me. I think it is from the shock.

Enjoy your early morning. See you tomorrow.
William Dotani Oct 28, 2009, 3:07pm EDT
Are you one type of doctor during the daytime and need to shave on Full Moon nights?
Susan, *laughing* with you. It's a real song? Eeewww!
Sheila Deeth Oct 28, 2009, 1:26pm EDT
Laughing. Very nice Elsie.
Marge H. Oct 28, 2009, 4:37pm EDT
Very cute Elsie. I'm laughing out loud at the comments too.
Richard Thuss Oct 28, 2009, 5:10pm EDT
I like this, it reminds me of my three year old grandson.
Madame Butterfly ~~ mary ann d ~~ Oct 30, 2009, 4:20pm EDT
What a cute response to this prompt! :-)

Every parent can remember telling their child not to put that into their mouth.

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