Sunday, July 13, 2025

Are You Average? Comical poem number 617 by Angela Lansbury

  When I first heard the word 'average'

I thought, neither good nor bad

When when I was told 'You're just average,'

I thought, not good, and I was sad

 

Then I learned average was middle

Of two opposite extremes

It was also called the median

Whatever median means


When you think of the body

We have ten fingers and ten toes

Two eyes and ears, and smiles and tears

One mouth, two lips, one nose


Most people have ten fingers

But everybody knows

Some off folk have one, or none

Where the lost ones went, no-one knows


The result is, you could say

The 'average' man has five

That's counting those born dead

A thousand years, as well as still alive


So am I brainy, above average?

Depends who you ask. Who knows?

Don't worry. I'm glad to say I've got

The average number of toes.

-ends-



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