I Tell Myself These Things, Too…
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A Couple More Things I Tell Myself
…since I seem to be in the mode of self-improvement. Or, more likely, just talking to myself as usual…
On Thin Ice (Advice to the Peewee Hockey Player)
With special love to all of my Canadian friends!
Out Cold
Do not the hockey puck invite
Your flaxen brow to cleave
By wearing not your shining helm;
And do not tear your sleeve
Upon the blade of someone’s skate;
And don’t assay to test
Opponents’ blows, save if you wear
A Kevlar hockey vest;
Avoid, if you are able to,
A stick thrust at your sternum,
For whacks like this are undesired
Even by those who earn ‘em;
Above all things, I recommend
You not enrage the goalie:
Though wounds are bound to happen here,
Some risks are just unholy.
Trouble in Texas
Dangers Just out of View
Do not pursue the missing sock,
The partner to your single shoe;
Though losing either one may rock
Your sense of balance, don’t pursue,
Unduly, missing treasures: wide
Their unwed wanderings may flee,
And you might quite unsettled be
To see on capture what’s inside.
Remember as you, hunting, run,
That warmth and dark like boot or sock
Is favored as a sun-baked rock
By spider, snake or scorpion.
Art-Colored Glasses 