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Tuesday, November 14, 2023

Ozzymoron

Does prosper Roger Federer...?
In sev'ral ways does Roger err.
Of Roger, few be fonder; er-
-go (though I'm not a slanderer)
my stand's he's a philanderer.
     Still, Roger's wife calls Federer her
scrappy Happy Wanderer -- her
ur-irrev'rent metaphor for
panderer Herr Federer. 
     So, though the man's no Mel Ferrer,*
to whom I worry to refer, 
remains he Roger Federer.

     * Married five times

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