Cheek

College student with chutzpah from Crowle:

‘Hesitation means loss in this role.

Even kids can explain

England losing to Spain:

Kane was started—it should have been Cole!’

 

Mike Mesterton-Gibbons is a Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Florida State University who has returned to live in his native England. His acrostic sonnets have appeared in Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, Better Than Starbucks, The Creativity Webzine, Current Conservation, the Ekphrastic Review, Grand Little Things, Light, Lighten Up Online, MONO, the New Verse News, Oddball Magazine, Rat’s Ass Review, the Satirist, the Washington Post and WestWard Quarterly. The poem was prompted by the BBC story, “College student applies to succeed Gareth Southgate.”