Recruitment

A ukulele came one day for me;
it had an image of an Army site.
I’ll learn to play and be all I can be.

There was no return address I could see;
and non-returnable was bold and bright.
A ukulele came one day for me.

The site I saw fit Fort Knox to a tee;
it looked as though it was seen from a height.
I’ll learn to play and be all I can be.

I also read, From sea to shining sea;
both image and that phrase gave me delight.
A ukulele came one day for me.

I wondered who would send a uke for free;
In pensive pose I thought with all my might.
I’ll learn to play and be all I can be.

I sat with ukulele on my knee,
with frets of gold and tuning keys of white.
A ukulele came one day for me;
I’ll learn to play and be all I can be.


19 Lines (Villanelle)
Writer’s Cramp
August 15, 2014

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(A villanelle is a nineteen-line poetic form consisting of five tercets followed by a quatrain.
There are two refrains and two repeating rhymes, with the first and third line of the first tercet
repeated alternately until the last stanza, which includes both repeated lines.)