Board Games Poem by Mary Angela Douglas

such a fun thing to do play board games
when it rains and you've got cabin fever
or home with the measles and feeling better

and everyone else has them too so let's
get one out of the closet and see what happens.
Life, Monopoly, Clue.

fun fun fun
run run Dick and Jane
Puff and Spot whatever your names are

cause Sally's winning every throw of the dice
and we don't feel so nice anymore
like we do in the pretty pictures.

run very far from board games kiddos.
Carol Burnett said it best, remember that skit?
Once you hit your lucky streak, and you're

the 'it' girl the rest of them

suddenly want to get up and leave.
watch reruns.
take a nap. go make a cheese sandwich.

trim a hat.

anything but that:
to see you win again.
you and your lucky spin

moving three spaces forward
with your lucky lucky game piece
the one that's Kelly Green

it's a wonder you don't take it to work
with you just in case of emergency
or a meeting goes too long.

hey-o let's build that team
who wants pink, or green?
the last thing that was said.

let's make sure said someone
more well read than I:

on the International Space Station
when they come with the ice cream.
no one's bringing them any board games.

muppets maybe. but no Candyland!

mary angela douglas 12 january 2016