Danbee Kim /

Danbee Kim / 김단비

six word poem 4/26

Prompt: “Your work is spellbinding, Six.  If it wouldn’t trouble you much, would you please pen a poem about the scope of the Earth. About how we’re all different, yet inherently the same in a biological sense.”

Forty-six  chromosomes spawned seven billion misfits

You may have gotten this question before, but do you know the rest of the nantucket story?

No, I have not gotten this question before; thank you for finally asking!

To answer said question: yes, I know both the dirty and the clean versions. Oddly enough, I actually learned the dirty version long before I even knew there was a clean one. When I was younger, my Mom used to recite it to me, as it had been recited to her by her father when she was a little girl:

(NB: the “****”s are pronounced as muffled noises)

There once was a man from Nantucket

Whose **** was so long he could **** it.

He said with a grin

As he wiped off his chin,

"If my ear was a **** I could **** it!"

Having a terrible sense of humor is a proud family tradition which we take very seriously.

CMYK is a three-dimensional mural created by the Norway-based design collective, Skurktur. Using spray paints, stencils, and a variety of mixed media, the artists produced this playful scene in which a young child and a grown man react very differently to the colorful “rain” dripping down the side of the building. The flat stenciled shapes interact seamlessly with the drips of water and the half-umbrella protruding from the wall.

Toe-pads of a Southern Leaf-tailed Gecko by PACsWorld