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Say Uncle Kay Ryan

 

Every day
you say,
Just one
more try.

Then another
irrecoverable
day slips by.

You will
  say ankle,
you will
  say knuckle;

why won’t
you why
won’t you
say uncle.

From Say Uncle
Copyright © 2000 by Kay Ryan.
Reprinted with permission of Grove Press.

 
 


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