“Words, words,
words.”
— Hamlet (2.2)
List #15: (g) subsequent, (h) confound
Your subsequent description did
Do nothing but confound.
You said you’d seen a Bigfoot once,
Just wandering around.
But then you said his feet were small—
“Petite,” in fact, you said.
And tiny feet don’t add too much
To terror or to dread.
So … did you see the thing? Or not?
And did it frighten you?
And did you think to capture it
And put it in a zoo?
No, you admired its tiny feet—
As if that were enough.
Oh, I prefer my mystery beasts
To be both fierce and tough.
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