Yogi Berra Style

My wife handed me a grocery list

As I headed for the store

She had added comments on her list

To help me with this chore

 

A note by an item on her list 

Really made me smile

She'd written “If they don’t have it, don’t get it”

In true Yogi Berra style

 

“If they don’t have it, don’t get it”

Like Yogi himself would say

Meaning "Don't go elsewhere for it,

We'll get it another day"

 

Yogi, the great Yankee’s catcher

Who's in the Baseball Hall of Fame 

Maybe more famous for his malaprops

Than the way he played the game

 

Many of these “yogi-isms”

Were made by others in Yogi's stead

Yogi himself once declared 

"I never said half the things I said"

 

 A well-known one of Yogi's 

His logic can’t be doubted

“People don’t go there anymore 

Because it gets too crowded”

 

I think of all his quotes 

My favorite one endures

“If you don’t go to their funeral 

They won’t come to yours”

 

Let’s close with a Yogi saying

In a baseball game

To an opposing batter

Making a religious claim

 

Batter drew a cross in the dirt

Invoking The Lord's name

As Yogi kicked dirt over the cross

He said “Let’s let God just watch this game”

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