A lesson a young, freshman girl
taught me many years ago:
She’d written on a writing prompt I’d devised,
“SOMETHING I TOOK FOR GRANTED, WASN’T.”
Her final sentence in her cute little story was,
“So I learned to take nothing for
GRANITE!”
(caps hers.)
I, pedantically, I realize now,
pointed out,
“Susan, that’s
“…for granted.”
She smiled at me,
(wicked little dear)
and said,
“Why, Sir!
They’re synonyms!”
Poems by Ken 