If All Poems Were Limericks: The Man He Killed, by Thomas Hardy

 

 

If all poems were limericks:
“The Man He Killed” by Thomas Hardy

Had he and I met by an inn,
we might have drunk whiskey and gin.
I shot him instead
and now that he’s dead
I wonder what else might have been.

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