Something like that.(New poems)(Poem)

 
Something like that 
 
   You know how in Spanish they put 
   An -ita on things? So this girl 
   Mildred, this Puerto Rican girl 
   Where I work, pretty girl--so I get 
   To thinking that a funny thing about 
   Her name is that it's one thing that now 
   That you think of it it isn't clear how 
   To ita-ize. 
 
      I'd come right out 
   And ask her how, but figure it's a bit 
   Safer to let the questioning begin 
   With a little in the way of easing in. 
   As in it is Spanish isn't it 
   Where they do that, and are we talking small 
   Things specifically or is ...