Junior Words, 36

A High School Teacher’s Final List

List #8: (a) menial, (b) incipient

There were times when I felt that my menial job

Was so awful I thought that I just ought to rob

A bank.

An incipient crisis now formed in my life.

I discussed it, of course, with my criminal wife:

Hopes sank.

For she told me that day that she’d long been a cop—

And my criminal hopes now just had, well, to stop—

It stank.

So I grieved and I groused and I sat in my car—

Or I drove down the road to my favorite bar—

And drank.