(8 September 1940 / Brooklyn, New York)

poet Jack Prelutsky
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Be Glad Your Nose is on Your Face

Be glad your nose is on your face,
not pasted on some other place,
for if it were where it is not,
you might dislike your nose a lot.

Imagine if your precious nose
were sandwiched in between your toes,
that clearly would not be a treat,
for you'd be forced to smell your feet.

Your nose would be a source of dread
were it attached atop your head,
it soon would drive you to despair,
forever tickled by your hair.

Within your ear, your nose would be
an absolute catastrophe,
for when you were obliged to sneeze,
your brain would rattle from the breeze.

Your nose, instead, through thick and thin,
remains between your eyes and chin,
not pasted on some other place--
be glad your nose is on your face!

Submitted: Monday, January 20, 2003


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  • Meira Shulman (4/14/2013 10:55:00 AM)

    I wonder if I would still have freckles on my nose if it weren't on my face.

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  • Melvin Mervyn (5/17/2010 8:31:00 AM)

    its a very good poem, ihave taken it for my exam, so its verygood

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  • Ann Lynn Smith (10/27/2009 11:01:00 PM)

    I can't wait to read this to my little ones-it should be in a little board book form!

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  • Dylan Oppedahl (7/14/2009 2:32:00 PM)

    I love this poem, its funny. He has imagination. Thats what it takes to be a writer. Not depression

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  • Salu Salu (1/13/2009 12:43:00 AM)

    i salute your way of thinking......let the weirdness go a point higher..
    thanks n rgrds for enchanting the mind.

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  • Nia Riz (9/2/2008 12:47:00 PM)

    you are one great poet.....i really luv all your poems

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  • Robert Howard (6/17/2008 11:46:00 PM)

    Better on your face than hovering in the clouds.

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  • Mitta Xinindlu (3/26/2008 1:54:00 AM)

    What a very nice way of telling us to appriciate ourselves. Thanks Jack

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  • Kitti Manson (1/10/2008 12:36:00 AM)

    Cute. It made me giggle.

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  • Brian Dorn (7/23/2006 6:44:00 PM)

    I can think of an even worse place our nose could be... Anyway, great poem, it certainly gives credence to the idea of intelligent design.

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