Haven't the Mets Suffered Enough?

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Haven’t the Mets Suffered Enough?
by Charlotte Clymer

With the Big One they’ve long seemed not to trifle,

Almost 37 years without a World Series title,

I was barely born when Queens’ joy last caught an eyeful,

Haven’t the Mets suffered enough?

That heartbreaking loss in the mid-Aughts NLCS,

Beltrán striking out last, his bat put to rest,

Collapsed the following year in the season’s closing test,

Haven’t the Mets suffered enough?

The ‘80s were good until they clearly weren’t,

Cashen traded everyone away and their fortunes quickly turnt,

And it was the fans left empty-handed and so brutally burnt,

Haven’t the Mets suffered enough?

Giving Ryan to the Angels was a sin against God, to be sure,

And yes, Doc and Straw certainly had their own misery’s tour,

But after all this time, shouldn’t fate be square and demure,

Haven’t the Mets suffered enough?

So, when I popped open Twitter and witnessed this curse,

George Santos or Anthony Devolder or whomever he was first,

Even as a Nats fan, this felt too far, and clearly the worst,

Haven’t the Mets suffered enough?

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