Wit Sport Poem by Douglas Scotney
Wit Sport
As an Elizabethan businessman-official
with an eleven-letter name would do,
Will's dad John
signed his name with a cross.
Pretty soon, wits like Will
were calling him ShaXpeare;
and for further sport,
the twelve-letter ShaX-For-Short.
Tuesday, June 16, 2020
Topic(s) of this poem: dad
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