Shamrock > Clover

Today, I bought a lucky shamrock

or so I thought

until I got to the checkout

where the clerk told me it was a sell out

not a real shamrock, but a four-leaf clover

the real thing has never come over

from the fair isle of Erin

and all the while, that plant had us starin’

four leaf clovers bring luck too, I’d say

can’t you remember how in childhood they were fey?

although my clover did not come over from the fair green isle

I have now had it quite a while

but it has brought me only bad luck

and that really sucks.   

Janet Bellinger

C 2006