The Good in Goodbye
The Oxford English Dictionary,
You know, the one 12” thick.
The one that stands on
A pedestal in your study,
Can’t tell me.
Who put the ‘Good’ in Goodbye?
Who thought that someone saying bye
Was a good thing?
When she said goodbye to me
There was nothing ‘good’ in it.
Why not Badbye?
Or Painbye?
When someone says goodbye
It is never good.
It is always bad, always painful.
So, who put the ‘Good’ in Goodbye?
Mr. Oxford, Mr. Webster, Mr. Merriam,
Can you please explain this to me?
Why would anybody put
‘Good’ in Goodbye?
Roy W. Backes
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