Less Boring Poem by gershon hepner

Like Trigorin in “The Seagull, ”
I like to store the lines I’ve heard
and quote them in my verse––it’s legal,
and even if not every word
is what the speaker had intended
as I embellish it with rhyme,
I hope that no one is offended.
Misquotations aren’t a crime,
especially when done on purpose,
Chekhovian tongue in cheek. Trigorin,
perhaps made many people nervous,
but also made them sound less boring.