Why is a mental lapse
Called a brain fart?
What does the failure
To remember someone’s name
Have in common with
A discharge of gas
From the intestines?
Maybe because both
Can be embarrassing.
What I’d like to know, though,
Is who first who said,
I’m sorry, I had a brain fart,
I don’t remember the
Vice-president’s name.
Or something along those lines.
And who heard it?
Did they laugh?
Did they repeat it the
First chance they got?
Or did they say,
That’s not a very nice image,
Flatulence from the brain.
I wouldn’t repeat it in polite company,
If I were you.
© Dennis Hathaway
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