Chewing Gum

A boy was walking down the street,
When some gum stuck to his shoe,
It had been chewed once long ago,
And was the colour blue.

The boy was disgusted, but walked on,
Knowing that the gum would break,
He walked to the supermarket,
And then walked on to the lake.

The gum held on, through thick and thin,
And with every step he would take,
The gum became longer and stretchier,
But it would never, ever break.

It followed him from Rome to Nome,
And over the Himalayas,
It followed him to a baseball match
Where he was one of the playa's.

It went with him in Alaska,
Where the snow falls deathly white,
It was with him in the Sahara,
Where your water can't be out of sight.

Finally, as an old man,
Sitting down to rest,
He was struck by a marvelous idea,
Which he thought was the best.

He bent down way over,
To see where his gum was glued,
He opened his mouth as wide as he could,
And CHEWED.