It's only fair!

It’s only fair

The X and the Zed looked the same,

I wasn’t quite ready for this game!

The glass of wine the night before

Did nothing for my ratings score.

It really wasn’t that OK

To get stuck with the J and K;

The letters I would normally relish

Turned out that day to be quite hellish!

Didn’t quite know how I got to play,

The Q sat in my chosen few today

And my usual sense of strategy

Was this morning a tragedy.

Late nights and early mornings

(Should have had some kind of warning)

All I did was sit there yawning;

Huge minus score I’m now mourning.

My lady sat there poised and pleased

‘It’s good you won this game I teased’

The jobs we have to do to care

Lost to Scrabble – it’s only fair!

Linda Lawrence

18^th March 2014