Sunday, January 5, 2020

Junior Words, 64



A High School Teacher’s Final List

List #13: (g) timorous, (h) bathos

If you are feeling timorous
About approaching her today,
Just listen and I’ll tell the way:
Just find a way you can discuss

The things that humans care about—
Like life and love and hopes and dreams
(Your sentences will flow like streams)—
And she will dig you—ain’t no doubt.

But please avoid the bathos, for
It is a way to douse the flame
That you’ve ignited. (Win the game!)
Yes, stick to things that mean much more.

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