wake up and smell the .....!

She had a son, a strapping lad
who loved his bed a deal too well,
he slept so soundly every day
she thought to rouse him with a smell

Because he slumbered for so long
his mother used to cry and sob,
‘Please get your lazy backside up
and find yourself  a paying job’

But days would pass and he would sleep
and every day his mum would weep,
until a flash of inspiration
changed his  regular prostration.

She rose one morning with the dawn
and knew this could not carry on,
so in a pan she threw the food
she hoped would change his attitude.

As sizzling in the pan there rose
a smell to challenge any nose,
it wafted slowly up the stairs
this longed for  answer her prayers.

And creeping under bedroom door
the smell now lingered even more,
and slowly through his half closed eyes
he sat up quickly with surprise.

As  if possessed by  unknown force
he left his bed, began to course
into the kitchen, met his fate
devoured with haste all on the plate.

Now every morning he awakes
and thanks the Lord his mother makes
the gift that made his life awaken
that wondrous thing  he loves so…..Bacon!

nothing cerebral about this ..just a bit of fun for the holidays..