Helen Chick
33. Expectations
I’m sure most people have some friends
Exhibiting obsessive trends;
Pedantic on apostrophes,
And know the Latin names for trees,
Who, irksomely, are often right,
And in the trivial take delight.
If you would like to make them tense—
To hold them in enthralled suspense—
The tactic ev’rybody knows:
Just let them read some text that shows
A lone unmatched parenthesis
(Exemplified right here, like this
22, 23 May 2013
Comments: This one doesn’t entirely work if read out loud!
Themes to come: 34. Stars; 35. Hold My Hand; 36. Precious Treasure; 37. Eyes; 38. Abandoned
Explanation about the 100 poems challenge here.
You’re an evil woman :-)!
(See what I did there :P?)
No, of course you don’t, because it rendered my smiley as an emoticon!
I guess you’ll have to use your imagination.