Long Wait Poem by Douglas Scotney
Long Wait
One of the two Johns in the office
drew the short shred
and agreed to answer to 'Johnny'.
'That is your to-name ('to' not 'toe') ',
he knows
he would have liked to have been told,
but 'to-name' waited forty-four years,
till he was sixty-eight years old.
Friday, November 12, 2021
Topic(s) of this poem: waiting,name,age
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
13.11.21. poetic license: it was actually one Douglas being called Doug and the other Douglas. Came upon 'to-name' in the dictionary today
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