The Dreadful Cap

Bart Edelman

It’s as basic as that.

This poor chap has used the Cap.

Oh, drat, drat, drat, drat.

 

And what shall I say?

Can’t make it go away.

Upper case is here to stay.

 

But if it could disappear.

Remain absent, abandon fear.

Would it then become clear?

 

Might I increase my range?

Explore the foreign and the strange?

Cash in on height exchange?

 

Yes, a simple letter by size,

Seems, initially, to traumatize

Poetry editors, far and wide.

 

By word, it must be true.

I’m done before I’m through.

Sailing solo without a crew.

 

It’s just my lot, I guess.

Nothing more and little less.

This dreadful Cap I need address.