she was my

five o’clock shadow

skippin’ skeet

6 of 1

and half-dozen of the

other

7 come eleven

and kee-razy

8

a solid 9

number 9, number 9, number 9

on the

EGBDF

scale

FACE it.

It balanced out…

weight! weight! weight!

(the power of 3’s)

there’s 1 or 2 things you might not know

(alphabetically speaking)

first—she didn’t believe in time

and

B,

she couldn’t tell it

(it heard, but didn’t really listen)

and

in summation,

only used clocks

as a verb.

hickory-dickory

duck.

©Karen Robiscoe