Fool Me Twice
Lucy tees the ball.
Charlie trusts her once again.
Charlie is a fool.
Though hardly in the haiku realm
it fits the three-line style
to write image…
add emotion…insight…
count syllables.
And we have expectations
that the thought be fair and true.
Here we may well question
Charlie’s frame of mind.
Perhaps he’s just a happy soul
who lives a trusting life.
I lived in the South.
“She’s such a sweet thing,”
was not a compliment.
Charlie is a fool.
Bonnie Marshall
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