Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WOMEN, by WILLIAM A. PHELON First Line: If you take them to the ball game Last Line: The contradictory fish! Subject(s): Baseball; Contrariness; Man-woman Relationships; Sports; Women; Male-female Relations | ||||||||
IF YOU take them to the ball game They say they do not care For anything like thisthey wish It was the track, so there! You take them to the race track, And (when they've lost your dough) They wish that they had gone, instead, To see a movie show. You take them to a movie, And then they mourn and wish That they were at the ball park The contradictory fish! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MISERY AND SPLENDOR by ROBERT HASS THE APPLE TREES AT OLEMA by ROBERT HASS DOUBLE SONNET by ANTHONY HECHT CONDITIONS XXI by ESSEX HEMPHILL CALIFORNIA SORROW: MOUNTAIN VIEW by MARY KINZIE SUPERBIA: A TRIUMPH WITH NO TRAIN by MARY KINZIE COUNSEL TO UNREASON by LEONIE ADAMS TWENTY QUESTIONS by DAVID LEHMAN A FOOL THERE WAS by WILLIAM A. PHELON |
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