Daffodils - NOT !!

This is a parody of W Wordsworth's "Daffodils" (sorry WW). It is based on a true story..

I wander’d lonely as a slug

‘cross my laundry floor with feeling,

surprised to spot above my mug,

black mold upon my ceiling;

Like seeping sweat from deadly pores

was the impression of these toxic spores.

 

Continuous as algal slime,

advances its blooming assault;

they stretch’d in never-ending grime

’cross the margins of the vault;

Ten thousand saw I at a ‘glance’ (USA);

So gross, I nearly wet my pants…

 

Such a musty, stachybotrys mess!

Oft tempting one to flee;

Could only make poets quite depressed,

in such putrefying company:

I cringed - and cringed - at the very thought

of what my laziness had finally brought:

 

For oft, when on my couch I lie

as a potato in a zombie mood,

they flash upon that inward eye

in the horror of my solitude;

and then my guilty heart doth scold-

“Get up you sloth 'n clean off that mold!”