Friday, July 19, 2019

Words from a Teacher's Past, 5



“Words, words, words.”
    Hamlet (2.2)

List #1: (g) placid, (h) precaution

I’ve tried to be more placid since
I crashed into the neighbors’ fence.

But they reacted in a style
That made me feel I was on trial.

As a “precaution,” so they said,
They bought a puma. (Oh, my dread!)

So if I crashed that fence again,
The puma’d dine, from head to shin,

On me, just trapped there in the wreck.
Are pumas legal? (Better check!)

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