puzzled

you love doing
the cross word puzzles
when you are bored
out of your mind
and they are
easy, when you have
no trouble
with the long
words going down
or across. once
you figure those
out, it's a piece
of cake, a slice
of pie, easy
street. but sometimes
you don't know
who that fourth
Baldwin brother is,
or who is a charter
member of OPEC.
it's impossible,
and you realize how
limited your education
is, how small
your world is.
how devious these
puzzle makers are.
you can hardly wait
for the paper the next
day to see where
you went wrong.