To the Person Who Put the “Caps Lock” Key Next to the Letter “A”
I thought I’d have a little fun with posting a poem today. This has been a long-standing torture of mine, similar to Sisyphus, where I often hit the Caps Lock button instead of the letter “a.” My response is always the same: “kill me now.”
To the Person Who Put the “Caps Lock” Key Next to the Letter “A”
by Chuck Rybak
Why not put the propANE tANK Alongside
the fire pit? Or the ACME weed killer
ADJAcent the prized hydrANGEA? Don’t mind
the stone BuddhAS on the daRK hARDWOOD floor,
ANd go on, just roll those throAT-sized mARBLES
in the bABY”S room-I’m sure she’d like to plAY.
Shift the heART from the chest into the skull,
of course its steADY beAT won’t upset the brAIN.
WhAT cAUSED you to seek such lASTING revenge?
Were you writing to your love when a GOd,
clAD As AN AnimAL, crept within rANGE
And rAVISHED thAT love, escAPED to the top
of a sheer, unscALAble, cAPITAl A?
Do we type the rescue? Your leAP from lower cASE?
I'm loving your sonnets, DA. I vaguely recall that there were a few featured in your books (I particularly recall loving the one that was a footnote), but I realize I likely did not know of your sonnet-love while we were at UC. Did we not take any poetry workshops together? Or was I just too self-absorbed and/or distracted by my troubles to notice? If the latter, my apologies. {I do remember being in Erin's fiction workshop with you and how you proposed the perfect ending for my story, for which I belatedly thank you, if I haven't done so before.}
This made me laugh when I needed it most! A clever, fun poem.