Worm World....[the Truth About Worms! ; Inspired By Loke Kok Yee] Poem by Bri Edwards

Despite Loke Kok Yee's fine poem: Perspective From A Worm,
I have some news (of the Worm World) which....will make some squirm.
[Some PoemHunter members and/or visitors are who ….I do mean! ]
The life of Worms, in the Worm World, is not always squeaky clean.

Just the other day, according to Worm News and World Report,
a young Worm (from a prominent family) was found taking a cocaine snort!
And some Worm children go hungry.......as I type this, my newest poem;
some are reduced, for survival's sake, to chew on Elm Tree phloem! !

And in a shabby part of one Worm city, fights broke out at a grass-juice bar,
and five of the fights' participants were carried to a hospital …in a private car.
Granted, this is unusual, as witnessed by the lack of any ambulance service,
but the increase in such events (in the Worm World) is making many nervous.
[nervous Worms, I mean! ]

Ok, Worms have no worries about diseases of eyes, ears, or tongues, BUT …..
with increasing use of dandelion cigarettes, some have ‘issues' with their lungs.
Truancy, births-out-of-wedlock, and other ‘social ills' are spreading very fast,
and some Worm news commentators fear that Worm Society will NOT last! !

(October 10,2016)