Gimme A Break
Charles Schultz
you like to say you’re Charlie Brown
the unappreciated
hapless shlemazel
the unfailingly benign
well-meaning soul
always harangued by demeaning women
but Charlie wasn’t tone deaf
or worse purposefully snide
he wasn’t an archer
an overbearing pedant
quick to judge
to wound
it was you who planted the ball
told me to bring it
said you weren’t afraid wouldn’t flinch
and when you yanked it away
you blamed the blinding sun
and my poor timing
you didn’t even scoop me up
for it turns out
despite your declaration
you don’t know how to do that either
you just huffed away
petulant and revealed
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