Intelligence is Not a Measure of the Humongousness of Your Brain

Inevitably,

His head began to swell

Until his lips were too

Ballooned for speech.

Eyes widened---without

His winding pompous jargon

He was as useful as

A burnt out lightbulb

(As I had known).

His feet lifted from

The sidewalk,

As his inflated noggin

Carried him towards Jupiter.

Flighty pigeons fled

From his massive melon.

Oh irony!

For the huge-headed boy

Had once been the puppeteer;

Today, the winds manipulated his course---