Time
for more instances of the homophone:
a word pronounced the same as another but differing in
meaning, whether spelled the same way or not, as heir and air.
1. lacks (verb): 3rd person singular of lack—to not have something; to not have
enough of something; (noun): the state or condition of not having any or enough
of something
2. lax (adj.): not careful or strict enough; (noun) abbreviation for lacrosse, that outdoor game with sticks and running people a ball
and a net
“You know what this poor
college lacks?”
He asked while drinking to
the max.
“It needs more lax, that awesome sport.”
He waited for some wise retort.
He waited for some wise retort.
“The students here ARE lax,” he heard.
He looked to see who’d said that
word.
He saw a prof just standing
there—
The beard, the book, the
unkempt hair.
“You’re all TOO lax,” the guy went on.
“You drink each day from
dark to dawn
And never even take a look
At homework—or a classic
book—”
But that's as far as he
would get:
The others stomped him—oh,
you bet!—
Then sat back down there at
the bar.
“That prof down there was
too bizarre,”
The first guy said. “He’ll
never learn.”
They later burned him.
Ashes. Urn.
Then buried him beneath a
tree
For speaking so, well,
thoughtlessly
About the sport of student
kings—
’Bout books and other retro things.
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