What happens to a snot rocketed?

  Does it dry up

  like a raisin in the sun?

  Or fester like a sore—

  And then run?

  Does it stink like rotten meat?

  Or crust and sugar over—

  like a syrupy sweet?

  Maybe it just sags

  like a heavy load.


  <strong>Or does it explode?</strong>

(with apologies to Langston Hughes)