Toy Story

A British man, age 50,
Had a cough that wouldn’t quit.
An X-ray showed a mass and so
He thought that this was it.

When doctors stuck a probe inside,
The patient was in luck.
Instead of cancer in his lung,
A toy had gotten stuck.

It seems when he was 7,
Playing in his room, alone,
He’d swallowed, accidentally,
A tiny traffic cone.

Its orange shape had wedged there
43 long years ago,
But now the surgeon figured
It was time for it to go.

The gent recovered quickly
With his lungs all nice and clear
And he left without his cough
But with a treasured souvenir.