There is a strange subject
Not getting attention
A puzzler that usually
Will long go unmentioned
For often it won’t even
Enter our minds
Until we are dealing
With our own bare “behinds”...
I ask you this question
And hope there’s no issue
But is placement important
With your toilet tissue?
Are you one who cares
If it’s over or under?
At all through the years
Did you stop once to wonder?
For most of my life
I am one who cared not
Until an old drawing
My bored eye, it caught
United States Patent
Official instructions
Had paper hang OVER
For proper roll function
And much like a bombshell
I discovered the truth!
The internet finally
Had provided the proof!
(Perhaps this aside
As a secret won’t spoil it
Indeed I was reading
Online on the toilet!)
I looked at my paper
Unsurprised it was “wrong”
So promptly I switched it
And pulled happily along!
To me it don't matter
Who should get the credit
It’s just toilet paper!
Or some dumb thread on Reddit
But promise I do
That this isn’t a blunder
If you make sure your paper
Is over, not under
(There's reckless unspooling
If you have kids or cats
The “under” position
Surely takes care of that!)
These odd little trifles
It’s a good thing to know ‘em
Now your life is made better
From this kinda weird poem!