You Have To Be a Hexagon -Edited

A hexagon, a hexagon, you have to be a hexagon. You say you are a pentagon? What use have I for pentagon? You’re too close to the White House lawn! So you’re a base to stand upon? This isn’t baseball, Pentagon. You silly polygon, be gone! A hexagon, a hexagon. You have to be a hexagon! You say you are a nonagon. A nonagon? What good are YOU? A coin perhaps, from Timbuktu?? You’re nothing, nonagon. Come on! A hexagon, a hexagon. You have to be a hexagon! You say you are a decagon. I guess you think you are a star. I don’t need someone quite so far up in the heavens where you are. I need, instead, a hexagon. A hexagon, a hexagon. You have to be a hexagon! You say you are an octagon. You’ve got some versatility! A mirror, tiles, candles too. They all can be the shape of you. But on the streets I always see your sign. It makes me have to stop. I do not think you are for me! A hexagon, a hexagon. You have to be a hexagon! A triangle you’ve now become? A simple flag? Three-sided crumb? I know that as an instrument you are not much! I find you dumb. A hexagon, a hexagon. You have to be a hexagon! A rectangle you try to be and now a square. You don’t fool me! I find you oh so ordinary. Crackers or Monopoly, or crossword puzzles I don’t need and Sponge Bob – yep – that’s “square” indeed! A hexagon, a hexagon. You have to be a hexagon! And so you are a circle now? you’ve got no point, you “walking round in circles” cow. A hexagon, a hexagon. You have to be a hexagon. I want those feathered flakes of snow with crystals of six sides to show. I need the shape of many eyes that see more colors than we know - the eyes of flitting dragonflies! I need the carbon chain of DNA and pretty patterns on the shell of tortoises. Okay, okay! You are a hexagon, you say? Come let me have a taste. Don’t tease! You are the honeycomb of bees! So sweet you are; you are my *salve. I now have got a hexagon; you're now the thing I had to have! *In American English: salve uses silent l and rhymes with have. Sept 15, 2019 For Nina Parmenter's "Welcome to My Random World" Contest