It’s National Poetry Day So She Responds in Kind

by gillis

She didn’t believe he was sorry

for eating the cool plums from

the refrigerator and yes, she had

been saving them for breakfast.

 

She thought he would probably

have ended up

exactly

the same

if he had taken the road

more traveled,

he wasn’t really that interesting

to anyone but himself.

 

She found the goat-footed

balloonman

a little creepy

if she were being honest.

 

She wanted her beamish boy to

stay in the mimsy borogoves in the yard

and not go whiffling off

snicker-snack all the time.

 

When she heard the fly buzz,

she hit it with the flyswatter.