Poetic Stick Calls
Just make your selection
Shoot in that direction
Roll the seven or eleven,
then you’ve made the right connection.
Once more,
the point is four.
Just like before.
Hard ways of ten, eight, six, and four.
If you bet them before,
you can bet them some more.
It only takes a buck
to try your luck.
If you get this four
you’re going to shoot some more.
The shooter is keen
to see a square root of sixteen.
If you want to win,
you’ve got to get a finn.
You don’t have to go to Helsinki
to get one.
To stay alive,
you need a roll of five.
There are no tricks
to getting a six.
Won’t it be great
to see another eight?
You get to shoot some more
with a square root of sixty-four.
Won’t it be fine
to see another nine?
Won’t it be fun
To see a square root of eighty-one?
If you get this ten,
you’re going to shoot again.
Just take two,
send them on through.
Roll the seven or eleven;
that’s all you have to do!
Copyright © Robert Pettit | Year Posted 2013
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