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So Many Choices

Harvard, Princeton or Yale?
   I'll take some courses by mail
Engineering or Mathematics?
   I'm majoring in Acrobatics

Piano, Violin, Flute or Clarinet?
   I'll play my music on the Internet
Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton or Dickens?
   Give me a J.K. Rowling tale of Wiccans

Pheasant under Glass with Caviar?
   Slice of pizza and fries with that, sir
Sparkling wine, Liqueur or Pink Champagne?
   Make mine tapwater -- plain

Mansion or Penthouse Condominium?
   A dreary shack, the bare minimum
Representative or Parliamentary Democracy?
   Socialist Republic, where everything's given to me

Life offers you choices, let there be no doubt
   The worst thing you can do is take the easy way out

Copyright © Gershon Wolf | Year Posted 2018

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Caren Krutsinger Date: 12/27/2018 12:21:00 AM Gershon, this poem has a jazzy sing-songy-way about it. The cadence had me smiling, and I am really liking it a bunch. I am throwing it on my FAV list so I can read it a bunch more times. Login to Reply Gershon Wolf Date: 12/27/2018 3:22:00 PM Thanks, Caren. I am honored to be on your FAV list.... Good choice! (Ugh! I couldn't resist that one, I guess). :)

Andrea Dietrich Date: 12/26/2018 4:57:00 PM oh that is funny. for at least half of those, I was thinking the last line choices were actually the better of the options!! Which I guess would mean that I would make a good socialist. hahaha. Good one, my friend. (the only one I hated was plain tap water!) Login to Reply Gershon Wolf Date: 12/26/2018 5:33:00 PM Oh, well, that can be fixed. You can choose between chocolate, bubble-gum, and cherry-flavored tap-water, all of it free! (Of course, it's actually paid for by your steadily rising taxes. Ha, ha). Thank for the support, Andrea! ~ gw

Michelle Faulkner Date: 12/26/2018 4:49:00 PM Our choices make us (in part) what we are, last line rings so true, well expressed! Login to Reply Gershon Wolf Date: 12/26/2018 5:33:00 PM Yup. Couldn't agree more.

Carolyn Devonshire Date: 12/26/2018 4:38:00 PM Many of us choose the easiest way, Gershon, but admire those who strive for a higher level. I like the way you developed your theme with examples to which people can relate. I think it's much the same as playing video games where you slay dragons, rather than actually going out to conquer a real foe. Well expressed! Hope you had a great Christmas, Carolyn Login to Reply Gershon Wolf Date: 12/26/2018 5:34:00 PM You got it, Carolyn. With the easy way, you always pay the price in the long run. ~ gw