Tea Time / by Brian Kunde

Tea Time
by Brian Kunde

There was a little man
Showed up one day for tea.
I poured him out a cup;
He poured it back on me.
I offered him a scone;
He bounced it off my nose,
Then asked me for the time
And slipped into a doze.

I do not like that man,
Nor how he misbehaves.
I do not like his look;
He plainly never shaves.
I don’t care for his snores,
Or tendency toward crime,
And when and once he wakes,
I won’t give him the time.

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Tea Time

from Twenty Twenty : Poems from the Plague Years, 1st ed., Aug. 2026.

1st web edition posted 8/29/2026.