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Sense of smell

My sense of smell has left me

It happened long ago

And now it's loss has come to be

An endless source of woe.

 

For I can no longer capture

The perfume of a rose,

Or any other scented flower

That in a garden grows.

 

It can also be a problem

With smells that are unpleasant

Do I need to treat the garbage bin

With an anti-smell depressant?

 

Now I have a knotty proglem,

For just the other night

A gecko came into my home -

That gave me quite a fright.

 

It ran along lthe ceiling -

I thought I'd call its bluff,

And though I know it's not OK

I grabbed some spraying stuff.

 

Then I went for the dustpan

But the gecko disappeared,

And though I searched both high and low

The result is what I feared.

 

I cannot find the wretched thing

Though I've looked everywhere,

Underneath the furniture

And each and every chair.

 

Now if it's gone and died somewhere

Time alone will tell

But never will I find that place

For I have no sense of smell.

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