Strategy (Monday Poem)

 by Gary Soto

 

 

I went to class, sat in a chair

That wobbled and rocked. Got up

 

And changed seats.

I got up again, and again.

That's how I happened 

To sit next to you.

 

 

from Forget-Me-Nots: Poems to Learn by Heart 

Selected by Mary Ann Hoberman

Little, Brown & Co, 2012