The Poetry of
Jack Scott

Try Cussing

How do you hurry a splinter out?
Needle?
Tweezers?
Knife?

How do you hurry a splinter out?
Cry ?
Plead?
Demand ?

How do you hurry a splinter out?
You don’t.
You wait.

Then, when it comes
other things are hurting
more.

 

266 ®Copyright 1972 Jack Scott. All rights reserved.
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