Some call it checkers, <br />I call it draughts. <br />Don't play with me <br />If you think it's just a game <br />And you don't mind losing. <br />I play a mean game. I play to win. <br />Old Peter Salaveros taught me <br />When I was a boy. <br />We played on a scrubbed table <br />In the seamen's mess, <br />Just him and me. <br />We played seriously. <br />Neither of us smiled.<br /><br />Pete Crowther<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-childhood-lesson/
