She Fights With Her Sweater
by Franco Bertucci
She fights with her sweater
and the sounds of the struggle
echo through the house.
We listen and await
the consummation of the battle.
Sometimes the sweater wins
and father rushes to her rescue,
to free her from the squeezing bonds
of the wiley sweater.Sometimes the sweater loses and no one cares
as, once again, it silently bears
the humiliation of being stretched inside-out and backwards.Poems and other embarassing things. 2011 Franco Bertucci