Kathy's Clown (Limerick Version) Poem by Kim Barney

Toward the end of my freshman year of college, I started dating a skinny, very cute girl named Kathy. I was really starting to like her. We had a date one night to go to the movies or somewhere, but she stood me up because Paul asked her to go with him. Paul was a big star on the football team, and I was only a 130-lb. member of the wrestling team.

I was devastated. At the time, the Everly Brothers song 'Cathy's Clown' was popular, and it became my favorite song for a while.

I don't remember if Kathy came back to that school the next year or not, but I never dated her again. It was all right. I got over it. I wasn't ready to get married at that young age anyway, but at the time, I thought my world had ended. I met my wife-to-be about four or five years later and we have been happily married for almost fifty years now.

5 September 2016

Note: I later decided to rewrite this limerick as a sonnet. To see that version, just click the 'next poem' button.