' They 'for' He 'and' She ' Poem by Douglas Scotney

'them' for 'him' and 'her'
'their' for 'his' and 'her'

To stop a reader in their tracks,
to make them think,
well, to suggest that they do (does) ,
to give them the opportunity to,

in the same verse as the famous cliche,
'The best laid schemes o' mice an' men'*,
Robert Burns rhymes 'joy' with 'a-gley',
which looks like
it should rhyme with what it means in English -
looks like it should rhyme with 'astray'.

Elsewhere**, he rhymes 'joy' with 'ply'.

A poet fine,
he detested 'all sadness and spleen'.