Postage Due
Dear Mom,
First week of college and I may or may not
Have caused the Chernobyl meltdown
I swear I didn't do it on purpose.
Also, I invented this thing
And I tested it on my roommate.
One good sniff and she didn't wake up
For four hours.
I think I'll call it chloroform.
And another thing - did you know I set foot on Mars?
Probably not.
It won't be in the papers for another
80 years or so.
Speaking of, Time machines are
No longer a thing of the future.
And they made Star Wars III because of me
And humans have fire because I showed them how
Dear Mom I invented the teddy bear
The printing press
And the atomic bomb
And let others take the credit.
I bred the dinosaurs into chickens
With some Komodo dragons on the side.
The unicorns didn't get on the boat
Because I forgot to send them the memo
And God got mad at me
And when he tried to smite me and I dodged
I started the London Fire of 1666.
Dear Mom it's the first week of college
And I may or may not have, but my source tells me
I probably didn't.