Terra infirma
I don’t know why you can’t remember
a table’s feminine.
It’s like a farmer.
Sex doesn’t come into it.
You only need it for declining.
Each must follow the laid-out pattern.
Bear in mind there are no articles,
definite or otherwise.
It’s all about gender.
What’s that? Yes, homo is different,
strictly speaking, deviating as it does
from the expected rule.
She shuts the book. Be thankful, girl,
It’s not all Greek. I frown.
I thought it was.