Poetry 101
by Alan Berecka


A prattling child, effusive
to a fault, I rambled on
through giant buck teeth.

I slurred my words
worse than Elmer Fudd
on a three day bender.

The dissonance rubbed
my mother’s nerves raw.
She told me often, “Son,
words are precious;
don’t waste them.”






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