Sonnet: Hard Trills
Rolling r's in Spanish is not as easy as rolling
drunken sailors on shore-leave in Lisboa, nor
as hard as rolling cigarettes with one hand tied
behind one's back. Gathering maple sap for
sugar may be easiest of all if you watch your
footing in the snow, and your Portuguese
might come in handy if you're ever in Macao.
Even humble pebbles need to watch where
they're going, even when it's only to Roslyn's
house over by the forest by the ocean and
its shore. Baboons come in around line eleven,
but don't hang around for long. Nixon invaded
Cambodia and Kent State University but never
took on Oxford. Let's all thank him for that.
Halvard Johnson
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