No Contest

It’s what we had all waited for What we practiced for all year Not that I am bragging But I was the one to fear Now Sheila was a gammer And MiMi had the charm Jinx was just my sister Not one of them an arm Not that the game took muscle It was more or less technique I had loads of talent The others – well – were weak With the board up on the table We all took our places I turned to look each in the eye They showed nothing in their faces We each took up our squidger Between our thumb and finger Placed it on the edge of a wink And for a moment linger We were aiming for the little cup There in the table’s middle For winks that land within the cup Each scored a single tiddle Then “pop” we press down on the wink And “flop” the wink goes flying Hopefully right in the cup For we were really trying But I missed my first wink Then it’s squopped by another player And I can’t play that wink again Because it’s down at least a layer We go around the table Each scoring tiddles fine I’m playing so darn good in fact I think the trophy’s mine But Jinx and Sheila had my wink squopped And I’ve no play to move it And MiMi has but one wink left And boy did she sure groove it Oh, I had the talent, I had the skill And I know I could beat them still But those three girls ganged up on me Squopped my wink so I would be Covered up without a play And that’s how it played out that day I lost my crown in Tiddlewinks Beat out by Sheila, MiMi, Jinx Mdailey 3/8/12 Squidger = circular disk used to propel winks Wink = circular disk counter in game Pot = cup in center of game board Tiddle = point scored by landing wink in cup Squopped = getting your wink covered by one or more other player's wink