The Story of Skunk and Fox

One day Skunk said to Fox,

“Boy, do you ever reek!

I have to tell you, Foxie:

You smell much worse than last week.”

 

Fox replied to Skunk,

“Hey, you’re one to talk.

I can smell you coming

From way around the block.”

 

Skunk said, “Okay, let’s ask

Ms. Flower since she’s so discreet.”

Said Fox, “Yuck, why her?

She smells so sickeningly sweet.”

 

So Fox suggested Pelican.

“Well,” said Skunk, “if you wish.

But don’t forget that he always

Smells like rotten fish.”

 

They tried and tried for hours

To agree on who could best judge

Which of the two smelled the worse.

Finally, Fox cried out, “Fudge!”

 

Then Fox went on his way,

Wandering back to his den.

“Don’t YOU smell good!” said the Missis;

She even said it again.

 

Skunk hurried on home,

Where he knew his mother would be.

“Mom, do I smell bad?”

She answered, “Not to me.”

 

A moral of this story

Is all about point of view:

Let others be who they are,

And be comfortable just being you.

 

Take with a grain of salt,

What others say or think;

And never let it upset you

When they tell you that you stink!

(6-24-14)