She sneezed in my ear...

   I was reading a Dr. Seuss book to my daughter when she sneezed in my ear.  I thought…You’re child is the only person who can sneeze in your ear that you wouldn’t punch in the face.  The incident inspired this poem.

My daughter just sneezed, sneezed dead in my ear.

She sneezed without warning no time to prepare.

While reading a book she leaned close to look

and filled up my ear with her snotty-nose gook.

She sprayed my whole cheek, my ear and my neck.

I simply turned to her and said, ‘what the heck’?

‘Cover your nose with your hand or your sleeve’.

‘You should cover your nose whenever you sneeze’.

She giggled and laughed and then with her hand,

She covered her nose then mock sneezing began.

I tried not to laugh it was really quite rough,

And after a minute I said, ‘That’s enough’

‘I’m just trying to protect you from enemies and foes,’

‘Cus if you sneeze on a stranger you’ll get punched in the nose.’