Bobby McGooding

Join Bobby McGooding, a curious boy who becomes obsessed with looking up his nose and exploring what might be hidden there. Through playful, exaggerated questions and mischievous imagery (green goo, hair, wild imaginings of treasure and creatures), the poem tracks his increasingly frantic attempts to see "up there." After tries that include hanging over a mirror, blowing, jumping, and picking his nose, Bobby's nose-picking escalates to a reckless extreme. The consequence is comic and darkly...