In which a fellow WordPress writer makes the bad mistake of giving this poet an excuse to get silly.

In this case, the fellow writer is British children’s author Robbie Yates.

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Recorded Reading: (1:27): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/8n92hz80yhh8zqbk712gy/A-Couple-of-Yoyos.mp3?rlkey=m6jfouczpr8hm408g6ecy83oy&dl=0

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A Couple of Yo-Yo’s

CALL by Robbie Yates:

Yoyos made a comeback
I thought that you would know!
Some people love to flick them
Up high and then down low.
They spin and twist and twirl them
They roll them on the floor,
…
(Can you finish this poem?)

RESPONSE by Ana Daksina

… My mishaps with the yoyos
Would fill a book of lore!

I thought that when I was grown up
I wouldn’t yoyo any more,
Thought that when I became adult
Yoyos would become a bore

But that was all when I was young
And foolish — all before
I found out they have made
A yoyo game that you can score!

So now I’m back — I’m on a
Veritable yoyo binge
Even though the sight of me
Makes all my neighbors cringe:

Injected it luminously
Using my syringe
And then I added dingle balls,
Hazard tape and fringe

Now all you yoyo champions
Had better anticipate
The loss of all your titles
To Robbiemon the Great!

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