Invisible Hangnail
I got a great pain on the side of my thumb one time.
I couldn't hold a lightsaber a certain way.
Qui-Gon seemed irked and demanded to know what was wrong,
so I sheepishly explained the sting of my thumb.
Certain people would have rolled their eyes, and he almost did.
He told me it sounded like a hangnail.
But I showed him my thumb and said I hadn't seen a hangnail.
I bet he did roll his eyes as he told me it was invisible.
I guess I believed him, and blew on it to dull the pain.
Maybe it was just a nerve, I said to myself,
though I wasn't sure if there were any on the edge of a thumb.
Jinn played games and said there sure was.
I remember believing him, but that wasn't a good thing, because I wasn't sure.
He told me to watch how gullible I let myself be,
and also to watch out for invisible hangnails,
because they're out there to punish Padawans who don't study enough.
That's certainly a story for the holobooks.