What a Difference a Letter Makes

Poor spelling can have serious consequences.

What a Difference One Letter Makes

 

By Elton Camp

 

Now that Osama is dead, this story can safely be related

About a man who the terrorist leader thoroughly hated

It was online this man decided he would put his views

So others could read and react to them as they choose

 

He opined that Obama was evil, fanatical and ugly too

And that anyone who killed him did a service so true

Obama was responsible for the World Trade Center

And that into death and hell that man should enter

 

The outraged writer then, in detail, continued to relate

What pleasure it would bring him, Obama to assassinate

“If the opportunity should ever happen to come around,

It would so delight me to shoot Obama to the ground.”

 

Before very long, his writing the Secret Service found

 And so to his house one evening they came around

“All right, you have really messed up big this time.

To threaten to assassinate the president is a crime.”

 

His innocence the writer began to protest and to yell

In fact, he was only guilty of being unable to spell

The difference between “b” and “s” put him on the rack

And he was led away with handcuffs behind his back