Saturday, August 24, 2019

Words from a Teacher's Past, 41



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

List #8: (g) reconcile, (h) commend

Well, I commend you for your plan
To meet and reconcile.
You haven’t spoken to your mate
For really quite a while.

(AN HOUR LATER)

What are those bruises on your face?
Those knots atop your head?
It seems she used a baseball bat
To counter what you said!

Sometimes you homer—sometimes not.
Sometimes (and there’s no doubt)
You try your best—you really do
But, still, you just strike out.

Too bad it wasn’t she who fanned
Who swung and merely missed.
A baseball bat feel worse—far worse
Than when you’ve just been kissed.

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