Acrostic Sonnets

 Big Discrepancy

 Be grateful if you're bald: your hat (or wig)
 Is guaranteed to stick. But if your pate
 Grows hair prodigiously, beware the big
 Discrepancy in size your locks create.
 I bought a hat, a closely fitting lid,
 Snug all around my head. I thought that it
 Could never blow away, and then it did,
 Regardless of the snugness of its fit.
 Exasperatedly, I scratched my head,
 Peeled naked by the wind, and pondered why
 A boater that once tightly gripped, instead
 Now flew so easily away ... Don't buy
 Close-fitting headgear just before you get
 Your hair cut—that's the deed I now regret!

 (First published in the Fall 2026 issue of
  WestWard Quarterly)



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